INCIDENT: United Express #UA6965 Colorado Springs to Saginaw (operated by Skywest CRJ200 N967SW) stopped the climb at 18,000ft & has just returned to COS with a technical issue.
COS: https://t.co/n6frRPqCva
At the very beginning of Bridgewater, we just hired people we liked. But too many of them turned out to be bad fits. Because we liked them, we were reluctant to give up on them, and things often went from bad to worse. So we started hiring like most companies do, by looking at résumés, narrowing the lists, and then interviewing to get a gut feel for who was right. But the questions we asked our candidates, unlike the questions on a scientifically constructed personality test, were unlikely to elicit answers truly indicative of what they were like.
What we were doing, essentially, was looking at prospective employees through our own biased perspectives. Those of us who were linear thinkers tended to want to hire linear thinkers; those of us who were lateral thinkers tended to want to hire lateral thinkers. We all thought the type we chose would perform best in all jobs, and as a result we weren’t able to accurately predict who would succeed and who would fail in our very unusual environment. As a result, we continued to make a lot of bad hires.
Eventually we learned from our mistakes and failures that we could improve our hiring results in two ways: 1) by always being crisp and clear on exactly what kind of person we were looking for, and 2) by developing our vocabulary for and means of evaluating people’s abilities at a much more granular level. This chapter lays out in detail the principles we’ve learned for doing this. While we still make too many hiring mistakes, we have significantly reduced the odds of making them by following these processes, which we continually try to improve. #principleoftheday
Happy Lunar New Year!
Lunar New Year, like Christmas and some other cultural-religious holidays, is for me a joyous time to enjoy and to reflect on what it stands for. Since I have been going to China over the last 40 years and have developed close relationships there, and since Lunar New Year is the most important holiday for the Chinese, it is also a special time for me.
To me, it’s like Thanksgiving (which is my favorite American holiday), though much bigger and long-lasting: like Thanksgiving it is a celebration of family, friendship, gratitude, and hope for prosperity in which family reunions are the heart of the celebration. It typically goes on for several days. The travel to visit family produces what is supposed to be the largest annual human migration in the world.
Kindness and generosity are reflected in the tradition of giving red envelopes with money in them to friends, family, and employees. Helping the less fortunate and promoting goodwill and harmony within the broader community are also big parts of the holiday. I feel goodness, mutual caring, and joy from it. I hope that you have the opportunity to feel it too.
Chun Jie Kuai Le!
The CR450 EMU prototype, unveiled on December 29, boasts speeds of 450 kilometers per hour and five standout features: faster, safer, greener, smarter, and more comfortable. Join China Daily to explore how this cutting-edge #train turns sci-fi into reality! #railway
Donald Trump didn’t just beat Kamala Harris. He beat the system that tried to put him in jail.
Now he's become the first convicted felon ever to win a presidential election — and that means he'll almost certainly never face legal accountability 👉 https://t.co/xAeVL36eEx
VIDEO: The moment Delta Airbus A350-900 N503DN struck Endeavor Air Mitsubishi CRJ-900 N302PQ as both were taxiing at Atlanta/Hartsfield-Jackson earlier today.
https://t.co/t5thfY9R6d
BREAKING: U.S. Faces Unprecedented COVID-19 Surge with 1.2 Million New Cases Daily
As of August 26, 2024, the U.S. is grappling with an alarming surge in COVID-19 infections, with a record-breaking 1.2 million new cases reported each day.
1 in 41 people is currently infected.
China's #RMB remained the fourth most active #currency for global payments by value, with a share of 4.52%, according to a new report published by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) on Thursday. Remaining in this spot for six consecutive months, the RMB's influence in global payments continues to rise. @swiftcommunity
Great moment from Bryson dechambeau, he tossed a kid his ball after #9 that gets intercepted by an older man and waits until it gets back in the right hands 🙌🏽
⚡️INBOUND SOLAR STORMS—5x mega coronal mass ejections - CMEs - that can knock out power are going to be slamming at Earth 🌍 between Friday and Sunday this weekend. Earth has only been hit with 3 previous severe CMEs in last 4 years. But we are gonna get 5x G4 CMEs in 3 days!😳