Posted May 1, 2012
by Barbara Reilly, PhD, Senior Vice President, Science and Research
Today's Harvard Business Review Management Tip of the Day, adapted from a January HBR article by Rob Markey, contained the advice to "throw out the annual employee survey," because "they're unwieldy and unreliable." Although most of us know that tips and "best practices" are seldom one-size-fits all, I feel so strongly about workforce analytics that I wanted to save others from taking this potentially harmful advice.
Unwieldy...
Posted April 16, 2012
by Barbara Reilly, Ph.D., SVP, Science and Research
One phrase, which I hear far too often, has the equivalent strain on my brain as nails on a chalkboard or thinking about sucking on a sour lemon. That phrase is "Don't measure what you can't change." I have a point of view that may seem radical and contrary to what others advocate: You should definitely measure what you can't change. Here are a few good reasons why.
- Correlation matters. You may not be able to change a specific item, but that...
Posted February 16, 2012
by Barbara Reilly, SVP, Science and Research
As this is my first blog for Morehead, I will take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Barbara Reilly, and I am the senior vice president of Science and Research. I spend a fair amount of time harnessing the power stored in our data and looking at data in different ways. Sometimes I use multivariate statistical models that are powerful beyond measure: regression, factor analysis, cluster analysis, and the like. At other times, it's back to the...
