Why Boards Screen Out the Wrong Kind of Risk

Podcast: Fit Happens: Why CEOs and Leaders Succeed or Fail · Jason Baumgarten

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

Does a leader's public failure actually tell you less than their quiet success? Here's a scenario I run into constantly in executive search: two final candidates for a CEO role, one with a spotless record, one with a very public failure in their past. The easy move is to screen out the second person. I think that instinct deserves a lot more scrutiny than it usually gets, and this episode is my attempt to work through why. Drawing on research across sectors, including studies on founder performance, star analysts who change employers, and the real...