3 Traits of High Performing People
I’m now working with a big industrial company to help them overhaul their internal mobility program. The company just...
Category: Lou Adler
The Hidden Danger of Skills-based Hiring
I always start a new search project with the hiring manager with this question, “What does the person in...
This Radical New Model for Hiring Is Just Commonsense
Sarah Jones had been an HR Business Partner at Meridian Systems for six years — long enough to survive...
Don’t Take the Metro Bus to Work – It’s Going Nowhere
We know that our best hires are people we’ve worked with before, internal promotions, and candidates highly referred by...
Skills Matter – But How They’re Used Matters More
The shift to skills-based hiring is undeniably positive. But let’s be clear: it’s just one step in a multi-step...
The Best “Moneyball for HR!” Hiring Question of All Time
“Moneyball for HR!” is about using data to make better hiring decisions. This one question stops turnover in its...
The Most Important Hiring Question of All Time
This simple idea will begin a hiring revolution at your company and it needs to be on the first...
Hiring is Broken and Can’t Be Fixed with Bandaids
Consider this. We’ve built elaborate systems – competency matrices, skills assessments, personality profiles, behavioral interviews with STAR frameworks –...
Is Your Hiring Process a Turbo Encabulator?
In 1944, engineers started circulating a brilliantly satirical technical description. The “turbo encabulator” supposedly used “a base plate of...
Eureka! — The Hiring Encabulator Is For Real
To start the new year, I decided to ask four brilliant minds – Jobs, (Alfred) Adler, Ohno and Einstein...
An Engineering 101 Approach to Hiring
As an engineering intern in an R&D department almost 60 years ago I learned that there are two basic...
Stop Guessing, Start Testing: An Engineering Approach to Hiring
As an engineering intern in an R&D department almost 60 years ago I learned that there are two basic...
Hiring Strangers Is More Miss Than Hit
Every hiring manager knows this paradox: When we promote someone internally, we’re right about 85% of the time. When...
Steve Jobs Always Played “Moneyball for HR!”
I recently heard a great story on Instagram about how Steve Jobs classified employees using an ABC model. It’s...
The Steve Jobs ABC Hiring Test in Action
I recently heard a great story on Instagram about how Steve Jobs classified employees using an ABC model. It’s...
Performance Matters! Skills, not so much.
It’s what people DO with what they HAVE that matters, not what they HAVE. You can easily figure this...
Performance Matters! Skills, not so much.
It’s what people DO with what they HAVE that matters, not what they HAVE. You can easily figure this...
The Calculus Behind “Moneyball for HR!”
Quantum Hiring will soon be here but for now we’ll stick with calculus and “Moneyball for HR!” All of...
Is HR Tech Wasting an AI Transformational Opportunity?
When the demand for top people exceeds the supply, you need to implement an “Attract the Best” talent strategy,...
Measuring Quality of Hire Is the First Step for Improving It
At a hiring manager training program last week, I ended the multi-day program with two pieces of advice. First,...