Over the course of my career, I’ve fired only two people, and both were workers at my family ranch. (I actually rehired one of them a few years later.) In my roles as an operations and logistics line manager in Argentina, a management consultant in Europe, and a leader at the global executive search firm Egon Zehnder, however, my firing rate has been zero. As an executive search consultant, I aim to provide the same thing for clients: very few of the candidates I’ve placed have been fired, and none have in the short term.
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