Personality Assessments: Helpful or Unhelpful For Hiring Are personality assessments an effective hiring filter? In the late 1990s, personality assessments entered the corporate hiring scene with a compelling pitch: decode how people naturally operate, match them to the right roles, and reduce mismatches and turnover. Tools like Myers-Briggs and DiSC, promised to turn instinctive …
The Crisis of Distraction – A Pathway Out
Author and Georgetown computer science professor Cal Newport’s recent New Yorker article “The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done” got me thinking. How can individuals, teams and organizations find relief from the tyranny of bombardment that’s killing our productivity. As Newport’s article states, with the spread of email in the nineties, “with all friction …
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