tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654766457045820938.post1967721298050276481..comments2024-03-06T22:12:01.650-05:00Comments on Cortical Hemming and Hawing: The Ig-Nobel Prize for Economics: Should companies promote people at random?Brad Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10716988596340612462noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654766457045820938.post-79386861832694322592010-12-21T15:34:15.839-05:002010-12-21T15:34:15.839-05:00If you like the book Sleights of Mind I would thin...If you like the book Sleights of Mind I would think you might also like Dan Ariely's Predictably IrrationalStephen Biedahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592019018047181650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654766457045820938.post-19236097472886541812010-12-21T15:31:43.841-05:002010-12-21T15:31:43.841-05:00I am a consultant that markets talent management s...I am a consultant that markets talent management selection and development psychometric tools. The tools I market utilize criterion-related validation which means that are validated against on the job performance.<br /><br />Given my above context, how would you propose I use the Peter Principle in my psychometric product marketing?Stephen Biedahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592019018047181650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654766457045820938.post-69496294654948495712010-10-21T22:24:02.621-04:002010-10-21T22:24:02.621-04:00Thanks for the info, and congrats on the paper and...Thanks for the info, and congrats on the paper and on the award. The paper is most certainly interesting, and even more so if you are finding real life examples to support your model. I have had an intuitive understanding of the Peter principle for years, but only thought about it in the context of corporations and other hierarchical "career paths". I will have to give this some thought as to how it pertains to evolution/adaptive peaks, and perhaps how it might map to the fitness of a species based on whether or not the mutations within the population are completely random or not. In the meanwhile, perhaps I will check out the story of Ricardo Semler and his company. <br />Cheers, <br />BradBrad Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716988596340612462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654766457045820938.post-28790332064385544022010-10-21T02:29:26.012-04:002010-10-21T02:29:26.012-04:00Many thanks for your nice quotation of our work. I...Many thanks for your nice quotation of our work. I'm Andrea Rapisarda one of the authors of this study. Of course our simulation is very schematic<br />and we did not include any psychological effect. <br />However evolution in nature proceeds in the same way by random mutations which give a finite probability of success even to the most remote possible changes, reinforcing (and not removing) them when they are successful. We have had a lot of positive comments see here for example<br />http://spedr.com/3gkuu and we have just discovered<br />also a real experiment applying a successful job rotation (very similar to what we have found). You can see here some info http://spedr.com/vk3c<br />Best regards<br />Andrea Rapisarda<br />http://www.dfa.unict.it/home/rapisarda/Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15317129896187350200noreply@blogger.com