Occupational Friction: Why Half of All Hiring Decisions Fail, with Martin Gibbons
What if the productivity gap in your business has nothing to do with headcount, and everything to do with fit. Martin Gibbons has spent twenty-six years studying what he calls occupational friction, the quiet mismatch between a person's natural wiring and the demands of their role, and why it explains almost everything that goes wrong in hiring and retention.
In this episode, Martin shares the physics-meets-psychology thinking behind his work, why nearly half of all hires fail within eighteen months, and a real case where one company cut new-hire attrition from seventy people a year to two…
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