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Dean ShareskiMalcolm Gladwell on the challenge of hiring in the modern world
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Bertrand DuperrinMalcolm Gladwell on the challenge of hiring in the modern world. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker Conference.
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Mihir DamniwalaVery good video on what is mismatch in hiring for people on the job
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David DonicaCheck out this great video of Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point) discussing the shortcomings of today's hiring practices. He cites examples of professional sports that conduct "combines" where teams measure the performances of prospects in the hopes of drafting the future stars.
Guess what: this method doesn't work. Jobs--of all types--are more complex, and the desire for certainty increases but is manifested in measuring the wrong things. Do you hire people based on the measuring the wrong variables?
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Henning von VogelsangExtraordinary speech about our ways of selecting people for work, sports and education, our failure to gain certainty and the need to face the ongoing changes
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Miguel guhlinMalcolm Gladwell on the challenge of hiring in the modern world.
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Adriana Lukaslast few minutes of the talk a must see! "we have a delusion that progress reduces uncertainty". Again, good old control raises its head again.
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Will BoltonMismatch problems - mismatches between testing of skills for professions and the actual skills required for the jobs.
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