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The science of telling who’s good at the job
Plain-English writing on more effective management and better organizations — starting where it matters most, and where almost nobody looks: what a century of real research actually knows about hiring, evaluating, and telling the difference between hack, good, and great.
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How to Tell Who's Good at the Job
A century of magic — skull bumps, handwriting, the handshake — the real science almost nobody knows exists, and the scandal that it's cheap, solved, and ignored.
Start here →the frozen prior
The Numbers Moved
The rank order you memorized was wrong. The 2021 corrections dethroned the cognitive test and put the structured interview on top.
the calibration inversion
Structure Is the Tool
The interview is your best selection instrument — and most companies use it wrong on purpose. Structure roughly doubles its accuracy.
the adjective tax
Grading on Vibes
What behaviorally-anchored criteria actually buy you — not validity, but shared meaning, usable feedback, and a decision you can defend.
the independence rule
Score Before You Talk
Two free fixes after you structure the interview: use a panel, and make everyone commit their scores before anyone speaks.
compose, don't copy
Two Thousand Jobs, No Two Thousand Studies
Defensible hiring criteria for jobs you can't afford to study one at a time — the forty-year-old method that composes validity instead of copying it.