How This Company Bounced Back After a Toxic Hire It takes time, but it's possible.
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"Culture fit" is the Holy Grail of hiring, but when Tracy Lawrence launched the catering startup Chewse, in 2011, she gave experience an inflated importance.
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"We're really into transparency and talking truth to power, but we didn't always have a way to vet it," she says. That led to a toxic hire: someone with crazy-impressive skills and market chops but a passive-aggressive streak. Fast-forward six months and the Chewse culture was marked by whispered unease and gossip.
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