"The Talent Delusion"
Despite a well-established science of talent identification and personnel selection, and a booming market for HR technologies, including AI, that can improve our ability to decode human talent and potential, most selection practices still rely on human intuition. Unfortunately, we are not very good at inferring talent intuitively, either in ourselves or others, which makes the case for wider adoption and deployment of data-driven tools for predicting employee-job fit, leadership effectiveness, and future work performance. This talk will examine the dominant "talent delusion" and explain how modern talent identification and assessment processes can improve to increase meritocracy in organizations.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is the Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, co-founder of deepersignals.com, and an associate at Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. He is the author of Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (and How to Fix It), upon which his TEDx talk was based. His latest book is I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique. Find him at www.drtomas.com