Gut Feel vs. Data-Driven

This has been going on a long time. Will “data” ever really win?

This is a super-long, but super-interesting discussion between two UPenn professors (Adam Grant and Cade Massey) on the rise of people analytics, how teams can work effectively, and how we should be hiring, amongst other topics. A video is also embedded above.

If you’re interested in those types of topics, I’d definitely read through that whole link. And when you do, come back here and see if you have the same major question I do: how long are we going to deal with this “Let’s make decisions off of gut feel” vs. “Let’s make decisions off of data” question?

Adam Grant even says this at the end of the discussion above:

From my perspective, probably the biggest unanswered question for people analytics is what Cade’s working on right now, which is: Why don’t more organizations do this? And how can you get senior leaders to realize…