Going Against the Grain
Don’t trust your brain. There are some very systematic ways that the brain is designed to be able to function, but it’s not helpful to you in life and business. Here’s some examples based on known...
View ArticleWisdom from the Small Fish
I really like small town newspapers. The big ones, like the New York Times and WSJ, are good for keeping up with world and national news and topics, but the little ones almost always end up with some...
View ArticleIce Cream Dreams (Risk Assessment – Part 1)
There’s a lot that’s going to come together in this post today. Franchises… Risk Management… Success… This morning, I was doing some research for a project that’s coming up, and I wandered onto a...
View ArticleDon’t Trust Your Brain (Risk Assessment – Part 2)
When psychologists talk about how a person thinks about their own thoughts, they call it “metacognition.” It deals with the accuracy with which a person can evaluate how they’re thinking about...
View ArticleApples and Oranges
I’m beginning to like PersonnelToday.com more and more. I’d love to get a subscription to it, but it’s a little too costly for me to consider right now. I really like it, because of the number of...
View ArticleUgh… Not a Test…
On to another PersonnelToday.com post. I like what they’ve done with the psychometrics theme. I’m a big psychometrics geek. I like statistics and math, but I really think that test construction and...
View ArticleHiring for HR Excellence
This is a fairly hot-button topic for me, especially considering my field of expertise. The author of this article is right, HR people used to just be the people who handled payroll or on-boarding, but...
View ArticleGetting Involved
To start todays post, I want you to make sure that you do NOT think about pink elephants. Just don’t. And every time you do, I want you to make a mental note that you have. Research is really clear on...
View ArticleProud to be an American…
I have to admit, I’m damned proud to be a SIOP member today. The president of the organization wrote a letter to President-elect Obama about how people like us can help the economy. If you want to read...
View ArticleInstructors with Style
I know it’s been a long time since I put a post up here, but I saw this in a journal this morning and it made me really happy to see it. In about the middle of 2008, some of the top researchers in the...
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Juggling versus Playing Catch
G.E.’s Beth Comstock made a great post over on LinkedIn about communication and the intricacies of actually being involved in a conversation. Facilitating good communication has been a large part of my...
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First Impressions
Imagine that you’ve been searching for a long time for a new job. While you’ve been hunting for weeks, your bills have been piling up, and you’ve been working hours on end doing nothing but filing...
View ArticleWhen The Canary Starts Singing Again
I remember the moment very clearly, one evening in early 2011 I was at a networking event in Saint Louis and I ended up in a conversation with an economist about the fiscal health of American...
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