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Feb 25, 2024 • 1h 1min
#81 - Dr. Igor Menezes - Building Assessments Using AI & Emoji Talk
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Core-periphery in the movie industry
Trust in communication mediums
Big five personality and divergent thinking

Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 6min
#80 - Andrew Pitts - Polinode for ONA & What's Up with Vanderpump Rules?
Podcast explores mapping networks with Polinode in people analytics, emphasizing diversity, and inclusion. Discusses unique Australian facts and cultural quirks. Analyzes network diagrams from Vanderpump Rules data using Polinode, highlighting global relationships and honeymoon reflections.

Feb 4, 2024 • 1h 21min
#79 - Cole and Scott - Regional Favorite Foods, Dream Guests, & A Marathon Nerdery
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An urgent call for I-O psychologists to produce timelier technology research
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/industrial-and-organizational-psychology/article/abs/an-urgent-call-for-io-psychologists-to-produce-timelier-technology-research/CFF168BF4E4B89741985BAAC451CC5B1
Gender Differences in Personality Traits of Software Engineers
https://cora.ucc.ie/server/api/core/bitstreams/4315dfdc-bc00-4975-8b05-f45a69f360cf/content
COKE VS POP: https://twitter.com/ChrisVannini/status/1733922148727623931
Are DEI programs going away
https://joshbersin.com/2024/01/are-diversity-and-inclusion-programs-going-away/
Paper Mills Bribing Journal Editors
https://www.science.org/content/article/paper-mills-bribing-editors-scholarly-journals-science-investigation-finds
Under the weight of heavy tails - Aguinis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352673423000768?via%3Dihub

Jan 28, 2024 • 1h 11min
#78 - Jordan Hartley - Round 2: Let's Talk Gen Z People Analytics
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Not very competent but connected article: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-53694-001
Study links Doctor Who to Christmas and death rates: https://nationalpost.com/news/study-links-doctor-who-christmas-episodes-with-lower-death-rates-in-u-k
Who is leaving and why AOM article: https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amj.2021.1327
Cole's Everyone gets paid the same theory:
https://open.substack.com/pub/directionallycorrectnews/p/everyone-gets-paid-the-same-a-theory?r=ybtwi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Cole's People analytics primer: Leadership analytics -
https://open.substack.com/pub/directionallycorrectnews/p/people-analytics-primer-leadership-analytics-41770b75084?r=ybtwi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Jan 21, 2024 • 1h 3min
#77 - Hemerson Paes - Active & Passive ONA Use Cases at Roche
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Burnout contagion among teachers: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/retrieve/548768
Order effects in the results of song contests: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/C03D0D5AA384362736FE1EB59A75516C/S1930297500006288a.pdf/div-class-title-order-effects-in-the-results-of-song-contests-evidence-from-the-eurovision-and-the-new-wave-div.pdf
Projections of Kinship for all countries: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2315722120?utm_source=TOC&utm_medium=ealert&TOC_v120_i52=&ref=d6697565
Cole's article - A Historian, Demographer, and Data Scientist Walk into a Bar: https://open.substack.com/pub/directionallycorrectnews/p/a-historian-demographer-and-data?r=ybtwi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Scott's MBR article - The Adaptive Hybrid: Innovation with Virtual Work: https://mbrjournal.com/2022/08/13/the-adaptive-hybrid-innovation-with-virtual-work/

Jan 14, 2024 • 1h 10min
#76 - Jocelyn Caldwell - Workforce Planning & AI at Walmart
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The devil you know versus the devil you don’t: Disclosure versus masking in the workplace: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/9C269F06C93A56FFB05CA990798B572A/S1754942622001018a.pdf/devil_you_know_versus_the_devil_you_dont_disclosure_versus_masking_in_the_workplace.pdf
Are people analytics and evidence based HR the same thing? https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1851101/evidence-based-hr-people-analytics-same-right-afraid-not
Zero-based workforce planning article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zero-based-workforce-planning-chatgpt-tableau-scott-reida-nokpf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

Jan 7, 2024 • 1h 7min
#75 - Cole and Scott - New Years Resolutions, 2023 Recap, & Nerdery Fun
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Much Ado About Nothing Article - Refuting Sackett's Work: https://pciassess.com/cognitive-ability-and-job-performance/
Evidence for Collective Intelligence Article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47369848_Evidence_of_a_Collective_Intelligence_Factor_in_the_Performance_of_Human_Groups
Startling Revelation in Spotify Layoffs: https://medium.com/@dgallagher_10742/the-subtle-yet-startling-revelation-in-spotifys-layoff-announcement-602f73fe2ad5
Vin Vashista - Increasing Headcount is No Longer the Most Efficient Way to Improve Productivity: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vineetvashishta_generativeai-aistrategy-ibmpartner-activity-7135628494931177472-lxn1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Dec 27, 2023 • 58min
#74 - Josh Epperson - Org Development for People Analytics & Identity Theft
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AI Doesn't Work Hard in December: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1734280779537035478
The Secret to Innovation is Bars: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1477820599409987585?s=20
Do the Effects of Social Nudges Persist?: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23277/revisions/w23277.rev0.pdf
Josh's Blog about Stimulus-Response Theory: https://www.navalent.com/resources/blog/how-to-trigger-yourself-to-do-good/
Adam Kahane's Book on System Transformation: https://www.amazon.com/Transformative-Scenario-Planning-Working-Together/dp/1609944909

Dec 17, 2023 • 59min
#73 - Stacia Garr - People Analytics & HR Tech Research
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Time Zones & Extra Sleep: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/19/how-living-wrong-side-time-zone-can-be-hazardous-your-health/
The Inconvenient Truth About Productivity: https://twitter.com/david_green_uk/status/1692065012657885619?s=20
Startup Founder Personality Impacts on Success: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-41980-y
Richard Lander's Video on Understand GPT's Impact on Employee Assessment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVbVuLvdoM4
Israel Scientists Train Goldfish to Drive: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/11/1072095219/goldfish-driving-car-israel-study
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Dec 10, 2023 • 1h 15min
Ep. 72 Dec 10th, 2023 - Anthony Onesto - Autonomous AI Agents in HR & Burning the Box
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Anthony's Burn the Box Website/Blog/Podcast: https://www.anthonyonesto.com/burn-the-box-podcast
Identifying Latent Activity Behaviors & Lifestyles Using Mobility Data: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=P4nfoKYAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=P4nfoKYAAAAJ:1Lcp1PKUB6cC
Time Tracking is for Bureaucrats - Santiago: https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1698320448843378811?s=20