by Russ Allison | Mar 25, 2016 | Company, Customers, Solutions
I just read an article (linked to this HBS paper) with the thought-provoking conclusion that the cost savings you get by avoiding the hiring of a toxic worker* is 2.5 times the anticipated gain of hiring an all-star worker. So, NOT hiring a catastrophic worker is...
by Russ Allison | Mar 7, 2016 | Company, Customers, Solutions
I’m generally interested in reading more about how introverts are critical to a good team and how they can be the difference makers in several situations. The recent increase in these articles is clearly justified given that our culture tends to naturally value...
by Russ Allison | Aug 1, 2015 | Company, Customers, Solutions
I use personality tests as tools to evaluate leaders fairly often and a key insight for many is that their results do not simply label a person as either this or that. Instead, I help them understand the test is more often saying that a person is more like this than...
by Russ Allison | Aug 10, 2014 | Company, Solutions
There has been a lot in the media lately about new workplace studies around Dark Triad personality traits – the kind of traits that tend to lead to adverse interpersonal interactions. There is a pretty good summary in the WSJ by Sue Shellenbarger covering...
