Post by Peter Days Personality on Sept 24, 2005 4:33:18 GMT -5
I must say (this week’s In Business), one wouldn’t have to be an expert on psychometric testing to conclude that Mr. Day didn’t enjoy relaxing! I always had my intellectual running shorts on when he presented ‘The Financial World Tonight’! Pheweeee, what a job keeping up with him – interviews with Brain Marber, Bronwen Wood, Paul Volker, The Graham Ferguson Lacey affair, The Collapse of Dunbee Combex, the disappearance of Keith Hunt. What a fine programme this was – and I still worry about Heather Paton sounding as though she had a sore throat!
I’ve worked in companies where the (so-called) high-flying managers were selected on the basis of psychometric tests. They were all a load of cr*p – the only ‘skill’ I detected was an ability to export their own incompetence. If psychometric testing actually did work, then one wouldn’t have seen The WorldCom collapse, Ferranti/International Signal debacle, GEC, North West/Delta filing under Chapter11……… continued P164.
I’ve worked in companies where the (so-called) high-flying managers were selected on the basis of psychometric tests. They were all a load of cr*p – the only ‘skill’ I detected was an ability to export their own incompetence. If psychometric testing actually did work, then one wouldn’t have seen The WorldCom collapse, Ferranti/International Signal debacle, GEC, North West/Delta filing under Chapter11……… continued P164.