Ep 761: What Happens When Recruiters Embrace AI?
Discussion on how recruiters are adopting AI and where judgment boundaries still matter.
RESEARCH & INSIGHTS
The people decisions that shaped and destroyed major companies.
Original analysis from Dr Ali Raza on leadership failures, hiring science, and why traditional psychometrics keep getting it wrong.
Getting It Right7 min read
Microsoft's $2.7 Trillion Proof That Empathy Beats Dominance
Satya Nadella's empathy, curiosity, and humility defied every CEO archetype. Microsoft's 10x growth proves that the right person for a role depends on the specific pressures of that role.
10xMarket cap growth
Data-Driven Shift7 min read
How Google Proved Managers Matter by Measuring Situations, Not Personalities
Project Oxygen analysed 10,000+ observations and found that the behaviours predicting great management were all situational and relational, not personality traits.
#8Where technical skill ranked (out of 8)
Assessment Failure7 min read
HP's Leo Apotheker: $30 Billion Destroyed in 11 Months
HP's board hired credentials - a 20-year SAP career, five languages, international experience - without once testing whether a software executive could lead a hardware company.
$30BMarket cap destroyed
Context Mismatch8 min read
Ron Johnson at JCPenney: When Apple Genius Becomes Retail Catastrophe
Johnson was a Harvard MBA who created the Apple Store and generated $4,032 per square foot. Traditional assessments would have ranked him best-in-class. The role demanded the opposite of everything he was.
$4.3BRevenue lost in 17 months
Leadership Failure7 min read
WeWork and the $39 Billion Cost of Mistaking Charisma for Competence
Adam Neumann passed every traditional leadership assessment with flying colours. High extraversion, high openness, visionary ambition. The traits were never wrong. The context was missing entirely.
$39BValuation destroyed