The Hiring Mistake That Costs Small Business Owners Everything

You hire for skill. You fire for values. In this episode, Shayla Wey breaks down the single most common, most costly, and most preventable mistake she's seen across coaching and studying hundreds of small businesses: bringing someone onto the team who's technically excellent but misaligned with your values.

Drawing on recruiting over 5,000 salespeople and developing more than 100 managers, Shayla explains why a values-misaligned hire is a much bigger deal in a small team than a large one. There's nowhere for the damage to be absorbed, and one wrong hire can shift the entire culture in six months. She walks through why this mistake keeps happening (hiring from urgency, assuming skill implies values, not knowing how to interview for values) and the real cost most founders underestimate: losing your best people, draining your leadership energy, and diluting the dream you're building.

Then Shayla gives four specific shifts to hire differently, including the three exact interview questions she uses to surface values instead of just skill. If you've ever hired someone who looked perfect on paper and turned into a culture problem six months later, this episode shows you how to catch it before the offer goes out.

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