Well well well. Can’t wait to dig in.
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“… we noticed that highly talented business performers are very similar to each other. (…) This led us to realise that business itself is an orderly closed system of relations between principles, and that so-called intuitive experts in business have an implicit grasp of this.”
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Oh my god. “This research led to a standardised instrument for measuring business expertise among a stage-like continuum (…) these instruments have proven to be extremely reliable predictors of expertise for both executives and executive teams.”
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These sorts of interventions shouldn't be possible. tl;dr DiBello and her team prevented a CEO coup by showing that he had capabilities the rest of the exec team didn't.
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(Page shots continued). The implications are ridiculous:
1. There is an expert mental model of business that is common across industries.
2. So DiBello and team can test expertise levels.
3. And they can design training programs that compress acquisition of such expertise.
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The paper does not reveal what that mental model is!
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.. Way to kill the hype😂.
Skepticism overwhelms evidence right now, but I'll put this on my radar, thanks! :)
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She mentions that an NSF grant. I'm going to go through her entire publication history to see if the results of that are published! (It should be).
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(I am, by the way, incredibly irritated by this. THERE WAS SO MUCH PROMISE.)
