Adventures in Leadership Land

Personality Tests *Are* Horoscopes for White-Collar Professionals! (Part 2)

Results from comparing the MBTI, Enneagram, and DISC Assessment vs. astrology • Your personality is a gemstone, not a label • Psychometric tests and…

Jul 12

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Are Personality Tests Just Horoscopes for White-Collar Professionals? (Part 1)

We designed a single-blind experiment (with scientific controls) for the MBTI, Enneagram, and DISC Assessment. Is your leadership training and…

Jul 5

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June 2025

How To Hire Better People: Think Contrarian, Not "Best Practices"

Talent acquisition "best practices" force you to work harder, not smarter • To hire great employees, take lessons from online dating ❤️💔 • Part 2/2

Jun 13

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May 2025

Everything I Know About Job Interviews, I Learned from Online Dating ❤️💔

Your hiring process is more like an animal mating ritual than you think • Part 1/2

May 16

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The Worst is Yet to Come...So is the Best

Prediction blindness revisited • One-eyed leadership in the land of the blind

May 2

March 2025

The Dangers of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Does KPI stand for "Key Performance Indicator" or "Kinda Perverse Incentive?" • Leadership Land reader check-in #5

Mar 7

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February 2025

Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 4-Dimensional Thinking

When practicing leadership in an unpredictable and un-post-dictable world, it's better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

Feb 28

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Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 3-Dimensional Thinking

Revisiting the concept of risk & uncertainty in terms of Impact × Probability × Predictability • Introduction to black swan theory

Feb 21

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Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 2-Dimensional Thinking

How to think in terms of impact × probability • When to avoid Russian Roulette and when to play • Examples of risk and uncertainty in business (and what…

Feb 14

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Lessons on Reverse Psychology from the Trump Administration

How the Trump administration's Fork in the Road "buyout offer" to federal government employees backfired • Lessons learned and applied to change…

Feb 7

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January 2025

Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 1-Dimensional Thinking

What is risk and uncertainty, anyway? • Spectral thinking is better than binary thinking • Fragility, robustness, and anti-fragility vs. risk

Jan 31

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How to Discover Secrets in Leadership Land, Part 2

How secrets transform into conventional wisdom • What happens when secrets return to the Unknown Abyss • The secret-seeker’s toolkit

Jan 24

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