Fast Company: How To Hire Your Organization's Capt. Sullenberger
Peter Bregman discusses what it takes to become a star in the workplace.
Sep 22, 2011
Fast Company
September 22, 2011
By, Peter Bregman
Captain Greg Davis is an outstanding fishing guide. I went out with him early one morning off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and came back a few hours later with several fish so big that I needed help just holding them up. Most other guides came back that morning with nothing.
What makes Greg such a remarkable guide? If you were hiring guides, could you predict he would be a star?
Wouldn't it be great if we could predict the areas where we would be most likely to shine? Where we would be stars? What if we could predict which song we should sing -- and on which stage -- to truly reveal our inner Susan Boyle? Well, we can.
On January 15, 2009, Captain C. B. Sullenberger made an emergency landing of his fifty- ton passenger aircraft, softly gliding it onto the Hudson River in New York City, saving the lives of all 155 people on board. Miraculous? Or predictable?
What do we know about Captain Sullenberger? Before the landing that exposed his particular brilliance, could you have predicted he would have the skill, the presence, the leadership to become the star that he is today?
Earlier in my career, I spent four years working in a management consulting company creating models to use in hiring people. Our clients, mostly large, public companies, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on research we performed in their companies to predict who would be a star performer.
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Sep 22, 2011
Fast Company
September 22, 2011
By, Peter Bregman
Captain Greg Davis is an outstanding fishing guide. I went out with him early one morning off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and came back a few hours later with several fish so big that I needed help just holding them up. Most other guides came back that morning with nothing.
What makes Greg such a remarkable guide? If you were hiring guides, could you predict he would be a star?
Wouldn't it be great if we could predict the areas where we would be most likely to shine? Where we would be stars? What if we could predict which song we should sing -- and on which stage -- to truly reveal our inner Susan Boyle? Well, we can.
On January 15, 2009, Captain C. B. Sullenberger made an emergency landing of his fifty- ton passenger aircraft, softly gliding it onto the Hudson River in New York City, saving the lives of all 155 people on board. Miraculous? Or predictable?
What do we know about Captain Sullenberger? Before the landing that exposed his particular brilliance, could you have predicted he would have the skill, the presence, the leadership to become the star that he is today?
Earlier in my career, I spent four years working in a management consulting company creating models to use in hiring people. Our clients, mostly large, public companies, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on research we performed in their companies to predict who would be a star performer.
Read More...