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May 12, 2024 • 1h 22min
#91 - Cole and Scott - Skills You Should Know, Job Searches, & Overlooked Articles
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Map of famous people lives:
https://twitter.com/rainmaker1973/status/1761399141689704897/photo/1
Theory is all you need: AI, Human Cognition, and Decision Making:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4737265
Economic Value of Tiger Woods:
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mksc.1120.0760?journalCode=mksc
Why every leader needs to worry about toxic culture:
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-every-leader-needs-to-worry-about-toxic-culture/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sm-direct
AI poisoning could turn open models into "sleeper agents":
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/ai-poisoning-could-turn-open-models-into-destructive-sleeper-agents-says-anthropic/
Zombie leadership - Dead ideas that still walk amongst us:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984323000966?via%3Dihub

May 5, 2024 • 60min
#90 - LIVE from SIOP 2024 - Special Returning Guests: Anthony Ferreras, Amy Stevenson, Rob Stilson, Emily Pelosi, Kelsie Colley
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Prediction all of life: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-023-00573-5
Rethinking the Dunning-Kruger effect - Negligible influence on a limited segment of the population: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289624000242
LLMs are capable of doing regression and machine learning: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_this-is-kind-of-nuts-our-results-demonstrate-activity-7184395264420401152-daZ0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

Apr 28, 2024 • 1h 3min
#89 - Dr. Matthew Jackson - Power, Game Theory, & Networks as a Different Kind of Influence
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The psychology behind always sitting in the same seat: https://qz.com/1349508/the-psychology-behind-why-you-always-want-to-sit-in-the-same-seat
Pandemic dreams: ONA of dream content during covid: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.573961/full
Vendor offering citations for purchase: https://www.science.org/content/article/vendor-offering-citations-purchase-latest-bad-actor-scholarly-publishing?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=689109562&et_cid=5113287
Do AI bots act similarly to humans: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313925121
Social capital measurement and associations with economic mobility: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04996-4

Apr 21, 2024 • 1h 13min
#88 - Drs. Harold Goldstein & Charles Scherbaum - NFL Draft Player Performance Assessment
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The impact of football on academic achievement: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775714000806
Cheers vs Jeers: Effects of Audience Feedback on Individual Athletic Performance: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/L-Epting/publication/281766861_Cheers_vs_Jeers_Effects_of_audience_feedback_on_individual_athletic_performance/links/56b22c9208ae795dd5c7a490/Cheers-vs-Jeers-Effects-of-audience-feedback-on-individual-athletic-performance.pdf
What will people do after they get their PhDs: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470218241236144
Preview of the NFL PAT 2023 Review of Results: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c3b3e19eb6&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1796095206673339613&th=18ed0313088bd4dd&view=att&disp=inline

Apr 14, 2024 • 1h 12min
#87 - Dr. Alan Colquitt - Is Performance Management Fine, Or Rotten To The Core?
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The Finer Details - The Predictability of Life Outcomes: https://www.colby.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Stewart_et_al_2022.pdf
37% of British Workers Think Their Job is Meaningless: https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/13005-british-jobs-meaningless?redirect_from=%2Ftopics%2Fsociety%2Farticles-reports%2F2015%2F08%2F12%2Fbritish-jobs-meaningless
Organizations Want to Abandon Performance Appraisal, Should They? https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Murphy-54/publication/312588967_Organizations_want_to_abandon_performance_appraisal_Can_they_Should_They/links/64f28b87fa851147de0a37d5/Organizations-want-to-abandon-performance-appraisal-Can-they-Should-They.pdf

Apr 7, 2024 • 56min
#86 - Cole and Scott - Prepping for SIOP 2024, Yacht Rock, & Zombie Deer
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4th Wave of People Analytics: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15344843231207220
The High Performer Hedonic Treadmill: https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/happy-high-performer-hedonic-treadmill/
AI Generates Better Ideas than Students: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1685717651262201856?s=20
Workplace Ostracism is More Distressing than Harassment: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/minds-business/workplace-ostracism-more-distressing-than-harassment.html
Zombie Deer are Coming for Us: https://x.com/stillgray/status/1739620328392016268?s=20

Mar 31, 2024 • 1h 6min
#85 - Dr. Jennifer Diamond Acosta - Job Skills & Upskilling When AI Is Coming For You
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How citations effect how papers are read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733322000129#:~:text=A%20paper%27s%20quality%20is%20also,and%20later%20in%20their%20lifetimes.
Exploring the relationship between video game performance and fluid intelligence: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0186621
Person-organization fit theory research and conundrums: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/peps.12581
2nd Time we covered the is the juice worth the squeeze Marc Effron article: https://talentstrategygroup.com/is-the-juice-worth-the-squeeze/

Mar 17, 2024 • 1h 10min
#84 - Dr. Nathan Carter - Causal Attitude Networks & The Octopus Murders
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College consumption and academic behavior: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30481/w30481.pdf
The cost of knowledge: https://people.tamu.edu/~yonghongan/The_Cost_of_Knowledge.pdf
Peer reviewer crisis: https://paulspector.com/a-peer-reviewer-crisis-in-the-organizational-sciences/
Using causal network analysis: https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2019-78909-001.pdf

Mar 10, 2024 • 1h 6min
#83 - Mark Hanson - Skills Intelligence With Lightcast & Is The Future Skill-Based?
Mark Hanson, VP of Strategy at Lightcast and a talent management specialist, dives deep into skills intelligence and its future role in the workforce. He discusses the integration of external data with internal analytics to enhance hiring strategies, urging a shift towards skills-based recruitment. The conversation takes a playful turn with a quiz on Gen Z slang and humorous insights on grocery bag packing. They also tackle the transformative role of AI in various jobs and the necessity for human oversight in an AI-driven world.

Mar 3, 2024 • 1h 16min
#82 - Dr. Ryan Hammond - Turnover Prediction, ML Ethics, & The HiQ Story
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Like stars: How firms learn from scientific conferences https://www.felixpoege.eu/assets/publications/2020FirmComm/corporateconferences.pdf
The role of facial hair on women’s perceptions of men https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nick-Neave/publication/222774518_The_effects_of_facial_hair_manipulation_on_female_perceptions_of_attractiveness_masculinity_and_dominance_in_male_faces/links/5a53418d458515e7b72e9d0e/The-effects-of-facial-hair-manipulation-on-female-perceptions-of-attractiveness-masculinity-and-dominance-in-male-faces.pdf