When you give advice, you are typically doing what is easiest to do, to get your thoughts across and perhaps feel good about yourself.  Most of the time, you will be far more effective by situationally playing a more effective role. Indeed, you will be more effective offering your advice as constructive feedback relative to their vision of success or skills or specific role.  This is especially true if you are the manager over people  to whom you are giving this advice.

As we enter 2016,  you hear story after story about the internet of things, the union of ecommerce with digital intelligence, cognitive computing and the cognitive business.  Even Warren Buffet has got into the act, investing billions in IBM in the last year or so, believing in their main focus on it.  Cognitive, of course, in this sense has to do with non- humans (businesses, organizations, machines, systems… ) understanding, reasoning and learning. A key aspect of this is what  getting access to the 80% of data that is "

The recently developed capability to accurately predict whether someone will be a high, average or low performer on specific jobs is a very powerful management tool.  Increasingly,  it is one that is increasingly impacting the performance of organizations across the globe. The foundation for this capability rests in the ability to quickly profile a person's motivations, natural tendencies, preferences and attitudes along with their  knowledge and experience requirements and then relating  these to a validated job specific performance benchmark.