People who appreciate baseball stats agree: Jonny Gomes of the Boston Red Sox is a below-average player. Yet, if you pay attention to his intangibles, he looks better. Even with lousy performance data, he was credited with playing a key role last fall in helping his team win the World Series.
The Gomes example reminds me—no matter how hard people try—that you can’t reduce everything in the world to data-driven decision-making. Especially when you’re talking about evaluating people, and how they might perform for a company.
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