Intuition—a mental “shortcut”—is the result of two hardwired processes (pattern recognition and emotional tagging), which frequently lead to cognitive errors. As a result of “going with your gut,” even the best, most experienced business leaders can make poor judgment calls about individuals.
Massive value can be attained when businesses use data to understand and optimize their workforce, as well as to outsmart and outperform their competition. When data are gathered and analyzed from the entire employee life cycle, we gain a much clearer picture of the levers to pull that improve employee retention, productivity, engagement, and more.
