THE DEFINING HIRE:
A Proven Process for High-Stakes Leader Selection
Leadership failures don’t start with poor performance. They start with poor selection.
The Defining Hire is about the most consequential decision leaders make: who gets trusted to lead. Built for CEOs, boards, CHROs, investors, and senior executives, the book provides a practical process for high-stakes leadership selection — defining success, reducing bias, interviewing for patterns, using assessment correctly, and avoiding the costly mistake of choosing the wrong senior leader.
Selection is destiny.
Who you select is what your organization becomes.
About George
George Randle is Managing Partner at Randall Partners, a leadership advisory and executive search firm. A former U.S. Army officer and global talent executive, he has spent his career helping organizations make better leadership decisions in moments that matter most. Over the course of that work, he has been involved in more than 85,000 hires across 65+ countries, including roughly 2,500 senior leaders. He is also the co-author of the bestselling book The Talent War. In this book, Randle brings together lessons from executive search, leadership assessment, and high-stakes selection to show leaders, boards, and investors how to get executive hiring right—before the consequences of getting it wrong show up in the business.
George Randle is a trusted advisor to C-suite executives, boards, and investors on executive selection, leadership, and organizational performance. As Managing Partner at Randall Partners, a leadership advisory and executive search firm, he helps organizations make better leadership decisions in moments that matter most.
In this book, Randle brings together lessons from executive search, leadership assessment, and high-stakes selection to show leaders, boards, and investors how to get executive hiring right—before the consequences of getting it wrong show up in the business.
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