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...
The Hiring Encabulator is being designed to eliminate all hiring mistakes. Not reduce. Eliminate. That's 50% of new hires who underperform or quit within 18 months? Gone. The fake resumes. Gone. The 90-day wonders. Gone. The core innovation relies on an inverse...
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. 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...
(Inspired by my 9 year-old granddaughter who wanted to proudly show her "Papa Lou" what she had just built.) Minecraft for Management: Building High Performing Teams, Not Just Filling Seats Minecraft became the bestselling video game in history by measuring one thing:...
Why AI Investments in HR Are Failing And Why Turnaround Specialists Should Lead the Fix AI investments in HR are faltering. Companies are spending millions on AI-powered recruiting tools, chatbots, performance management systems, and learning platforms, yet most...
Quantum Hiring will soon be here but for now we'll stick with calculus and "Moneyball for HR!" All of these idea takes the use of data to another level when it comes to making better hiring decisions. "Moneyball for HR!” is based on the concept that the best people...
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...
Decades of organizational research have consistently identified what separates exceptional employees from average ones. The Five Pillars: What Research Tells Us Results & Impact: McKinsey's research on high performers shows these individuals don't just complete...
Win-Win Hiring means measuring hiring success on the first year anniversary date, not the start date. This means both the new hire and the hiring manager enthusiastically agree – one year later – that they made the right decision. One way to increase the likelihood of...
There's a Better Way to Assess Work Ethic, Grit and Motivation At a recent Performance-based Hiring training sessionfor hiring managers I was bombarded with questions on how to hire people who were willing to work long hours. When I asked them what they were now...
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...
"Performance-based Hiring sounds great, but we don't have time for lengthy interviews." I hear this objection constantly. Hiring managers acknowledge that Performance-based Hiring is superior – assessing candidates on what they've accomplished beats checking boxes 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,...
June 29, 2025 A provocative new article from Towards Data Science, "Stop Chasing 'Efficiency AI.' The Real Value Is in 'Opportunity AI,'"challenges conventional thinking about AI implementation in enterprises. Author Shreshth Sharma argues that while most...
Let's put the hiring manager in charge of hiring and measure their success by the quality of the people they've hired. But the metric of success is not measured on Day 1. It's measured throughout the year. And by their new hires. Below is the why and the how. And...
(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...
performancebasedhiring.com There’s been no shortage of solutions proposed to reduce hiring bias in recent years. Structured interviews, unconscious bias training, and AI audits are popular options. But for all the effort, most of these interventions treat bias as a...
The talent game has changed. You don’t win by hiring fast — you win by hiring right. Here’s why the smartest companies are adopting a Moneyball mindset for hiring top performers. The hiring game is changing. Rapidly. And there's little time for talent leaders to catch...