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[quote=Anonymous]Example of poor fit:

Our job is not rocket science, but there are a couple of times per year that are super busy.  During those times, no vacations allowed, everyone working 60 hours per week (for about 3-4 weeks, 3 times per year - the rest of the year is more like 30-35 hours per week, it all works out), and like a well-olied machine, the work got done amd clients were happy.

Then the Board brought in their friend Larlo.  Larlo was put in charge of the team, arrived at 10 and left at 4 every day, and spent a good chunk of every day on their phone in their car (none of us knew what he was doing, speculations ranged from job-hunting to drinking or drugs).  Even during crunch time.  Larlo also told clients things that weren't true, and twice threw staff members under the bus because he couldn't tell clients no.

The team tried to talk to Larlo, who went to the board and said the staff ambushed him, and then when nothing was done, we lost several excellent team members who had been with us for a long time.

The new/replacement staff aren't anywhere close to as skilled as the former staff, who wouldn't have left if the Larlo bad-fit wasn't thrown at them, or, if the bad-fit problem had been delt with when they brought up their issues with him, and with Executive leadership, and again with the Board.  A dynamite team has turned into a problem team, and oh, Larlo left after about 18 months.

Larlo was not a good fit and destroyed a great team[/quote]

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