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Researchers at the University of Chicago and Stanford measured America’s economic growth per person from 1960 to 2010 and concluded that up to two-fifths of America’s increased prosperity during that time can be explained by better identification and allocation of talent.

David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America

Largest Quantitative Synthesis to Date Reveals What Predicts Human Behavior and How to Change It

Hailey Reissman asc.upenn.edu

when managers were randomly assigned to see employees as bloomers, employees bloomed. McNatt concludes that these interventions “can have a fairly large effect on performance.” He encourages managers to “recognize the possible power and influence in (a) having a genuine interest and belief in the potential of their employees . . . and (b) engaging

Adam M. Grant Ph.D. • Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

statistical significance,

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

In the market of ideas and technology, the top performers are at least 10x more valuable than the average performers—making hiring of utmost importance

Tyler Cowen • Modern Wisdom: #482 - Tyler Cowen - The Secret To Finding Great Talent

wrong.

Adam Grant • Hidden Potential

My colleague Phil Tetlock finds that forecasting skill is less a matter of what we know than of how we think.

Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Even scientists who are most concerned with assessing individual differences in personality would concede that our ability to predict how particular people will respond in particular situations is very limited. This “predictability ceiling” is typically reflected in a maximum statistical correlation of .30 between measured individual differences on