Do you hire people and rate their effectiveness on whether they can do the work, or on whether you like them?
Before you answer, ask yourself who you rate as having the better playing career in tennis – Pat Rafter or Lleyton Hewitt?
Let me give you some information on actual performance on our two candidates: Read more…
When personality tests and cultural surveys come up with clients, they often say a little apologetically “I know you don’t think much of these, but…”. I feel bad when I hear this, because I don’t automatically think they are bad.
Far from it.
I rate things such as Myers-Briggs, the various LSI, OCI, CSI permutations, Facet 5 and all various letters, spiderwebs and colours as great tools for raising the performance of teams that already know what they’re doing. Read more…