Failing to make a senior level appointment after a lengthy recruitment process can sometimes be the best decision, delegates at a chief executives’ conference have heard.
Launching a guide to the senior recruitment process, managing director of chief executives’ organisation Solace, Graeme McDonald, said: ‘Often a bad appointment is worse than no appointment at all.
'Not appointing – as reluctant as we are – can sometimes be the right decision.’
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