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Why You Should Hire People Who Failed Before
Lucas and Luna dig into a counterintuitive hiring strategy: why candidates with a prior failure—a startup that folded, a product launch that flopped, a project that missed every milestone—often outperform those with spotless résumés. They unpack a 2024 study from Harvard Business School that tracked 2,100 early-career engineers and found that those who had experienced a significant professional failure in the previous three years had a 34% higher probability of being rated a top performer in their next role. The hosts walk through the mechanics: failure forces pattern recognition, humility…
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