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Published: 2016-04-08
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C5UQbWzwg8
I both love and hate human resources and you will soon understand why this vicious songo was diagnosed sky schizophrenia at the age of twenty one like so many patients diagnosed with schizophrenia she did not want to accept her disease and see offer refused taken medication as he became so desperate that she decided to put her fate into the hands of Jonathan very soon yet convinced her
that it was the medication that's made to feel it so he urged her to abandon that medication I convinced her to take his back flower remedies instead now her condition soon deteriorate it and one late afternoon in nineteen ninety six received a phone call from her boyfriend because she was standing on the escape rather of the apartment building where they lived she was threatening to kill
herself so I rushed over and we somehow managed to save her by recklessly storming down the ladder and Robert tightly I would hope of a family and a lawyer she was read of the Charlton the damage had already been done I tried to commit suicide on several occasions and this was of course a turning point in my life and my career because I realized because I
personally witnessed all dangerous pseudoscience and quickly could be so I realized how dangerous it could be and what has this got to do which human resources well the start of my career I had to attend a training transactional analysis and this theory states that during the first two years of our lives we make our life script including the diseases we will have to try to conquer
and this sounds so very strange to me that I decided to challenge the train and the Oscar this schizophrenia choice to she confirmed David moss no effect the woman I've been talking about was my sister in law and we had been wanting phones by the doctor some specialized basins organizations that this was total nonsense she finally killed herself at the age of only thirty six and
yes her realized how dangerous it could be but also the show creolized that a child could be dangerous to and I have experienced many examples take for example the case of beats who had been so successful manager for many years until the point where you have to take a test based on an entirely crazy theory called spiral dynamics it offers an opponent of explanation for human
evolution and he lost his position as a manager and even got fired off a few months and still today five years later he hasn't been able to find a new job mainly because he felt often too depressed and he and his wife had to sell their house and then now live in small apartments this made me very angry and still makes me very angry if I
see that desperate Thor vulnerable people are real New York been so I decided to use joined a skeptic community had like a dome quicksort I settled on a mission to reveal the truth about the many HR models and questioners Michael so that the scientific literature to see whether these models were theoretically songs and what does the available evidence be positive or negative so of course I
started looking at the practice issues that the bank first but I worked there was a practice off employee performance scores giving people a score every year and to even apply the force ranking on the and we also creates created big big ups and bait individual bonuses and we impose thought dong the phone was goals and people I need go Ching out to attend the training based
on John Rick moss grow mobile and of course then sectional analysis and I was left to believe in training that people have four distinct learning styles I learned about muscle spirit of neat I learned about the so called communication who but a whisper Avia and only this had to to follow a course is situational leadership by Ken Blanchard or a training based on the stages of
grief model by Elizabeth Kubler Ross and their plight is as a guidance for change I even had to fall over training in speed reading now what did I found out about all of the small this when I applied these criteria well all of these models required simply wrong no this left me very confused and sometimes angry I felt confronted and maybe by now some of you
have recognized some of these models and have the same feelings already because indeed changing our deeply held convictions can be very challenging this reminds me of this famous quote but I decided search for the truth so I continued recruitment occur came across practices such as %HESITATION graphology our brain scans allegedly predicting your future performance or a your harness the and I found out that most of
the questioners used if it if for months all the forced choice format basically making you choose between apples and pears even if you like them both I developments I found out that my eyes bigstub indicator among them because I was very popular it's a fact that never dies and there's also the ever increasing the open or inside this company that was the Herman brain dominance instrument
making us believe that we have four distinct thinking styles and they're located the nice areas in our brain and does the enneagram and that's the building team rules I think coaching I found out that new linguistic programming was very profound or an old beat but also overtraining making you believe that you can become more creative or be ever more intelligent by plugging into the universe I
believe that not but some people actually believe that you can become a better by getting feedback from a holes I will visit through human resources that the so often followed the lead to Smith take for example the seventy twenty ten model by Tom Jennings he's an Australian engineer who claims to be an expert that learning but the researchers sex and the two experts in the fields
of learning say it's total nonsense and some of them even call it but I never miss so maybe by now you can raise our hands if you have ever been subjected to any of these models why doesn't that surprise me so I continued to attend as many more than that is behind me he's really very long and this is evidence of the fact that human resources
management thinking is really funny problematic let me give some examples in its awesome for example there is the practice of giving people and animals score and applying a full strength some organizations even follow the advice of Jack rose who was the former CEO of dialectic fire every year in the bottom ten percent farro yanked that's why they called it rank and yank well this is very
strange because all of the in nineteen ninety six Google and NBC have conducted the meta analysis demonstrating that giving people a score has a zero effect on performance but only the last few years have some organizations thought to have been this practice I think for example the big big gaps create that's by rank or the tournament TV it was a teary invented by two economists but
it led to this information sharing more fraught lower group performance the best people actually leaving first and a lot of people receiving the payment policy as highly unfair this theory in the US let's do that CO two worker average speed issue explosion in nineteen eighty three the average CEO gained forty six Bucks more by two thousand and thirteen that only the increased a tree hugger then
talk to one time small but if you compare to the minimum wage it's even a staggering seven home that then seventy four times more and it doesn't need to be like this because we'd know in HR systems there are lots of good frameworks and tools take for example the productivity measurement and enhancement system Bromus a meta analysis has the most say that it increases productivity wise
people keep that up to me and they can participate in their goal setting and in the decision above the performance indicators sometimes theories are really of certain it doesn't require a lot of intelligence to understand take for example for example the any exam it's very old it goes back several thousands of years ago to Sufi sect but the most important proponent was good the F. and
he believed that we are free brain beings here on this earth serve the moon because we are forever in debt to ours the moon because the moon was split from the are can you believe that or think organizational constellations throw that put people in a room and through a kind of paranormal all quantum proces vessel that problems the only problem is quantum mechanics simply cannot operate
in a warm environment like a brain some believe in the paranormal few people realize that caliber stuff you believe in the paranormal and that this like MBTI or incense discovery are based on it well that prefer me to call it a question at that he believes that in the far away but a little universe there's information stops and this information contains pre existence psychological archetypes and
he can get access to them through a panorama process very upset some theories are just dead wrong think for example my full or any item or MBTI the biggest believe but that this abuse in the population looks a little bit like this the couple must distribution if you compare it to all the features of humans like physical heights this would mean the three would almost have
no one between one to sixty and one meter eighty and that is of course simply impossible I mean did we know that most human features and also our personality traits follow a nice continuous distribution like this and this is something all of the jaws Darlin hostile I told us because he explained that evolutionary processes lead to variation resulting in this nice Gorshin distribution I think the
myth of NLP or the learning styles they're both based on the false premise that some people are more visual all those are more auditory and yet others are more in the study and this is entirely wrong it's entirely false because just like all other primates our visual sense is the most dominant in this week everyone as extensive research has demonstrated sometimes theories are wrong in other
respects like the overall measurements think again these forced choice questions that often leads to entirely opposite selection of vice compared to normative tests for example or think the MBTI again that's many flaws and US national resource council calculated that if people think that that's the second time only off to four weeks them the median of people having an entirely different personality type is a staggering sixty
percent imagine what it would do to a family life if you have to wonder every four weeks what person I've talked with my family members have and again it does need to be like this because of recruitment and selection we know what kind of tools are good predict disliking dozens and some aspects of personality and indeed if you look at personality there are theories based on
that like the five fact of all of the six flexible and we have booked this flight in the OP are missing the five factor model of personality or the hex a cool measuring the six fact of model of personality and if you look at the real research data then we indeed show is see that these threats follow knives my distribution like this in extroversion so there
is no such thing they're not fourth types like in life or nine as in any event or sixteen as in MBTI there are literally much more combinations than the number of people living on this earth finally I also found out that many people lie not only about the so called scientific status of their theories but also about their own degrees I contacted several universities and that
told me that a lot of people I both appear to see for example so the problem with all of this is of course if you put in garbage that inevitably garbage must come off nobody has ever been able to prove that you can take right decisions based on entirely false information and the burden of proof of course on them not on us and I know some
people say it's only a tool or only a discussion stuff that but let's consider this imagine you're a citizenship in Paris if you're lost and you off someone for directions in the person says well you can have my my because I'm going home and you gratefully unfold at math only to realize it's a map of New York so you all the general purpose generous person what
it means and the person says well it's only a navigation start of of course that silly like that city map that's wrong city map will get to anywhere in the city a room personality test or intelligent test will get to anywhere for example for your career decisions so the best option really half its size and reason and you don't have to be so negative about size
because after all it's only a methods we have invented ourselves to overcome a bison thinking errors it has allowed us to a bomb them abandoned practices like magic healing or witch burning and it does give us many benefits like purified drinking water and the three D. internet so we don't have to be scientists ourselves you can enjoy signs would you accept it to have surgery by
surgeons who never updates housing units would you accepted to take a drug that doesn't help because a lot of side effects would you accept it if an engineer lies about his degree as engineer and bids announced a bitch what do data five weeks somebody who has never been trained as a pilot fly on this plane I think he also is a clear no so defeat if
you don't accept a full blood test you should not accept a flawed person artist and if you don't accept the bogus cancer therapy you should not accept the bogus coaching think of the damage it can do if you use to the science so if you don't accept bats practices and lies you know the fuse of our life we should not accept them in HR especially not
since there are so many valid alternatives if not cheaper easier to understand and more accurate if you have it in training I fifteen coaching so the list O. site and we are also good explanations like psychology based on biology explaining things for you both competes and collaborate for example so the list offended atonement is an approach is very long too so there's really no excuse not
to use them so it's high time to abandon these bad practices it's high time we abandoned the good was like in the big who ended up in bonds ants Richard Bandler and turn to pause the champions league of biologist and psychologist instead like Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker I have made the choice to abandon the bats and the role and the Sulu mothers because they can
do possible harm to people and I'm race the science base is that because they are much more reliable and that allowed me to acts morally and that is of course a choice we all can make because Wignall it's gone suspense ability I urge all the leaders a critically question your itself practice thank you
