To start the new year, I decided to ask four brilliant minds - Jobs, (Alfred) Adler, Ohno and Einstein to redesign the hiring process from scratch. Here's what they came up with. The Hiring Encabulator: A Philosophical Blueprint Imagine. Not reduce. Eliminate all...
In this earlier postI proposed the idea that we should combine the intellect of Steve Jobs, Alfred Adler, Taiichi Ohno and Albert Einstein and ask them how they would redesign the hiring process from scratch. The working title for the design they created is called...
Why is HR allowed to operate the only enterprise process where a 99.5% defect rate is considered normal — and then celebrate AI for making it faster? Now let me prove the shocking claim. First we just pulsed the major media market reviewing published reports for the...
A $60 Billion Yearly HR Problem That Won't Go Away By Following the Leader By most estimates, global recruiting spend exceeds $60 billion annually. The yield? Less than 0.5% of applicants get hired – and half of those underperform or leave within 18 months. That's a...
This is a true story. More important: It's one you get to write. It will take place sometime in the next 12 months. Maybe at your company. Maybe in your department. It could be your story. Or not. That's up to you. Let's begin. It's about two moles we'll call them...
This is a true story. It will take place sometime in the next 12 months. Maybe at your company. Maybe in your department. Maybe... to you. It's about two moles. Harry and Harriet. Both are good workers – the kind who show up on time, hit their deadlines, and never...
As an engineering intern in an R&D department almost 60 years ago I learned that there are two basic ways to experiment to validate whether a new manufacturing or business process is effective. The first is testing a specific theory – you think you know what...
When the demand for top people exceeds the supply, you need to implement an "Attract the Best" talent strategy, not one that's designed to weed out the unqualified. Yet it seems to me, HR Tech designers and their HR customers are ignoring this basic Economics 101...
At a hiring manager training program last week, I ended the multi-day program with two pieces of advice. First, invoke the “No 2s”rule to prevent most hiring mistakes – immediately! A Level 2 is a person who is competent to do the work but not motivated to do it. As...
This Fortune article describes why your HR tech AI project will likely fail despite what all of the HR pundits tell you. It summarizes what Julie Sweet - the CEO of Accenture - has found to be the three red flags when it comes to using AI improperly. It all comes down...
In the war for talent, efficiency is a participation trophy. Transformation is how you win. Note: This is a fictional account drawn from real situations in multiple companies — a composite of leaders who’ve faced the same challenge. The names and details are...
Note: This is a fictional account drawn from real situations in multiple companies — a composite of leaders who’ve faced the same challenge. The names and details are fictional, but the underlying issues are real. This could be your story, too. Now let the tale...
As this research report points out, the most predictive factor in hiring success isn't credentials, experience, or skills – it's the degree of connectedness between candidates and the organization. The graphic above reveals an uncomfortable truth. Internal mobility...
As this research report points out, the most predictive factor in hiring success isn't credentials, experience, or skills – it's the degree of connectedness between candidates and the organization. The graphic above reveals an uncomfortable truth. Internal mobility...
It’s time for a hard reset. Let's put the person in charge of making the hiring decision in charge of the entire process! Hiring managers need to step up and measure their success by the quality of the people they've hired. But the metric of success is not measured on...
(Note: This was written by Claude when prompted to describe Alfred Adler's impact on human behavior and hiring people based on their intrinsic motivation to excel.) Nearly a century before Stephen Covey, Marcus Buckingham, and Carol Dweck became household names,...
For more than two decades, Gallup has reported on the state of employee engagement in the U.S. The data has been remarkably consistent — and remarkably disheartening. As of 2024, only 31% of employees are engaged in their work, while 17% are actively disengaged. The...
Sarah Chen never thought a simple scorecard would transform her hiring process, but six months later, she found herself in the CHRO's office, making the case for rolling it out company-wide. "David, I need to show you something," Sarah began, pulling up her laptop....
(This story was written by ChatGPT in October 2023 describing the legal and diversity hiring implications of using AI vs. Performance-based Hiring based on this whitepaper from Littler. It predicted exactly what happened in the case of Workday vs. Mobley 20 months...
TL;DR: Why $2 Trillion in HR Tech Hasn’t Improved Hiring Despite decades of work and over $2 trillion invested in HR tech, companies still haven’t found a way to consistently improve quality of hire, retention, job satisfaction and performance. Most HR tech tools...