I was reading a piece on Google News about toxic leaders, and it reinforced something I’ve learned the hard way: in Recruitment, you don’t “discover” toxicity after Hiring — you either screen for it early, or you end up paying for it later through attrition, fear-based culture, and stalled performance. What I look for now isn’t charisma. It’s patterns. A few signals that consistently matter in interviews and reference checks: - How they talk about past teams. If every story h