Management overconfidence

Few managers ask themselves the hard questions: Am I the reason people are leaving? Was it because of something I did, or something I didn’t do? They assume they’re not the problem, their employees are.

A survey of 5,247 hiring managers who’d hired 20,000 employees said that after 18 months 46% of newly hired employees failed and only 20% achieved success.

And what was the biggest takeaway for managers interviewed? They needed better interview processes to weed out the failures before they joined their teams.

But the common denominator isn’t the employees. It’s the managers.