Category: Brain Science of Hiring
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From Strategy to Execution: Where Most Hiring Systems Break
Most organizations do not fail at strategy…they fail at translation. From startups to growth ventures and large enterprises, it’s a universal experience. Board decks are clear. Growth targets are defined. Value creation plans are documented. Yet somewhere between executive intent and frontline execution, alignment weakens. In PE-backed and enterprise environments, that gap most often appears…
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Why Hiring Is a Value Creation Lever, Not an HR Function
For decades, hiring has been treated as an HR-owned, operational necessity. Something required to “keep the lights on,” fill open seats, and manage compliance risk. In that framing, hiring is reactive, transactional, and largely disconnected from how leaders think about growth, profitability, or enterprise value. That view is no longer just outdated. It is actively…
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5 Tips for Navigating Cognitive Challenges in Hiring
Navigating Hiring Decisions Amidst Cognitive Poverty, Attention Fatigue, and Decision Fatigue As hiring managers, one of the most critical responsibilities we have is building a strong and capable team. Hiring new employees requires careful consideration and decision-making. However, the stresses inherent in hiring processes and how they affect us are rarely discussed openly. It’s helpful…
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Hire Like a Pro: How to Hire Better When It’s Not Routine
In our professional lives, we get better at tasks we do often. But sometimes, complex responsibilities that we might do infrequently, like hiring, can be a challenge. You may be a brilliant Project Manager or IT Director, but if you only hire once or twice a year, each hiring cycle may feel like reinventing the…
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How To Approach Hiring When We’re Afraid Of Making Bad Hires
Hiring managers have all wrestled with this fear at some point: what if I hire the wrong person? How do I know if I made the wrong choice? Applying Occam’s razor to hiring may help us deal with this fear. Occam’s razor is a philosophy that states: when presented with multiple explanations for a phenomenon,…
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Quiet Quitting Isn’t The Problem You Think It Is
And The Solution Isn’t What You’d Expect When the ‘godfather’ of flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, went looking for the source of human happiness and optimal experience, his journey led him to uncover something unexpected – our paradoxical relationship with work. It is this paradox, in part, that is responsible for the latest manifestation of discontent at…
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The 5 Fatal Hiring Mistakes Most HR Managers Overlook
“A good manager… isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.” — H. S. M Burns Everybody who has ever hired anybody will tell you that hiring is hard, and the hiring data agrees. 46% of newly hired employees will fail within their first 18 months according…
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The Overpowering Effect of Negativity Bias
How It Jeopardizes the Hiring Process and Almost Ruined the Career of an All Star From Founder + CEO, David Nason A History of Being Negative (A Time Travel Story) To understand negativity bias, we need to steal a car, but not any car. We need a plutonium-fueled DeLorean. Upgraded with a flux capacitor, modified…