Quotes About Assessment

Instead of asking candidates to self-assess a given behavior or characteristic related to humility, hunger, or people smarts, ask them what others would say about them. For example, instead of asking someone if he considers himself to be a hard worker, ask him "How would your colleagues describe your work ethic?

I believe in the old saying that if you can't measure something, you can't improve it.

Adrenaline addiction The unwillingness or inability of busy people to slow down and review, reflect, assess, and discuss their business and their team. An adrenaline addiction is marked by anxiety among people who always have a need to keep moving, keep spinning, even in the midst of obvious confusion and declining productivity

Rich didn't care if people liked the guy. He knew that most people at this level had learned how to be likable during interviews. "What did Rita think?

They put every candidate through at least five interviews. They insist on using a core set of behavioral questions, asked in slightly different ways by different people. And then they make all the interviewers get together in a room and debrief." Jamie paused. "They do this for vice presidents, consultants, even receptionists.

I often like to talk with candidates in a room with multiple team members. This allows us to debrief more effectively (e.g., "What did you think he meant when he said . . . ?"). This also gives you a sense of how the candidate deals with multiple people at once, which is a critical skill on a team. Some people are much different one-on-one than they are in a group, and you need to know that.

Someone once told me that the best way to know if you should hire a person is to go on a cross-country business trip with him. See how he handles himself in stressful, interactive situations and over long periods of time. While that isn't necessarily practical, I do believe that interviews should incorporate interaction with diverse groups of people in everyday situations and that they should be longer than forty-five minutes.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

Everybody's an art critic.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

Art critics are like every other critic.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

Presently she said: "It's none of my business, Nick, but what do people think of me?" "You're like everybody else: some people like you, some people don't, and some have no feeling about it one way or the other.

I don't," he said, "and that's a fact. I just can't size them up at all. This Mrs. Jorgensen, now, what is she?" "A blonde.

He stood beside the fireplace and looked at her with eyes that studied, weighed, judged her without pretense that they were not studying, weighing, judging her.

Taking the inventory of your current work at all levels will automatically produce greater focus, alignment, and sense of priorities.