HBR On Leadership
HBR On Leadership
Harvard Business Review
How to Make Better Hiring and Firing Decisions
26 minutes Posted Oct 16, 2024 at 11:02 am.
0:00
26:14
Download MP3
Show notes
Joel Peterson has spent a career leading teams, building businesses, and managing people at every level. Along the way, he’s learned valuable lessons about the best ways to bring on new talent, as well as when and how to let people go. Peterson is the former chairman of JetBlue Airways. He also teaches at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He shares his approach to hiring for top leadership positions and why it’s so important to slow down and take plenty of time with interviews. He also explains how he coaches new hires who are struggling and how he knows when it’s time to let someone go.