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Revealed: lateral partner hiring doesn’t work

Mark Brandon @ 2.57pm: "... what the research couldn't show was the reasons why each hire didn't work out." Surely that admission from the author of this research demonstrates that the research itself is of very limited value. What about law firm mergers for example? If I were to sign up as a partner with firm X and then subsequently found myself about to be absorbed within firm Y as the result of a merger which I had not been informed about in advance - or which perhaps was not in contemplation when I was going through the recruitment process - would that make me "a failed hire"? I might have delivered in spades for my new firm financially and non-financially but simply chosen not to be part of an organisation to which I had not originally agreed to sign up.

14-Feb-2011

7:51 pm