Articles about designing, interpreting, and using evidence to assess capabilities with sound judgment.
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An uncomfortable finding in assessment is that a common scale does not produce fairness when people lack comparable opportunities to generate and present evidence.
Two people may demonstrate a capability in different ways while still meeting the same core demand. Fair adaptation requires separating the construct from barriers created by the format.
Who needs to see a piece of talent data, in how much detail, and for how long? The answer begins with the authorized task, not hierarchical rank.
An older assessment may still guide development yet be insufficient for assigning a critical responsibility. Its date alone does not determine whether it remains useful.
What can AI claim about a skill from digital traces? Moving from data to signal, inference, and decision involves leaps that require control.
A matrix showing two successors for every position can still hide severe dependency; coverage, depth, and time reveal how resilient the network really is.
What should happen when someone challenges an assessment? A review should examine data, rules, interpretation, and use without turning the outcome into a negotiation.
Deciding on an internal transition requires four pieces of evidence. They must separate transferable capability, adaptation still needed, confirmed gaps, and entry conditions.
Sources of Power makes it possible to treat expert intuition as situated recognition without turning experience or confidence into unquestionable authority.
A correlation between skills and outcomes is useful for opening an investigation. A claim of contribution requires an explanation of the mechanism, the timing, and the alternatives.
A 360 improves an assessment when it preserves what each source observed, from which relationship, and within what limits; averaging first destroys that information.
How do you keep a calibration session from turning into a negotiation over scores? Bring evidence, context, and criteria into the conversation before the number.