People
The operators, researchers, and writers behind the ideas — every one cited with their standing to speak.
AristotleResearcherGreek philosopher (384–322 BC), student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, whose Nicomachean Ethics founded the Western tradition of virtue ethics.Christopher M. BerryResearcherIndustrial-organizational psychologist whose research focuses on personnel selection, integrity testing, and the validity of hiring predictors.Jeffrey BussgangPersonGeneral partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, Harvard Business School lecturer, entrepreneur, and author of Mastering the VC Game.Diana ChapmanOperatorCo-founder of the Conscious Leadership Group and co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership (2015).Robert X. CringelyCommentatorTechnology journalist and author of Accidental Empires.Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiResearcherHungarian-American psychologist who originated the theory of flow, former head of the psychology department at the University of Chicago and Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University.Kristina Graci deLunaOperatorTalent partner at Andreessen Horowitz; co-author of the a16z hiring process guide and an operator on recruiting and hiring for a16z portfolio companies.Jim DethmerOperatorFounder of the Conscious Leadership Group and co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership (2015).Hubert DreyfusResearcherAmerican philosopher (1929–2017), professor at UC Berkeley, leading interpreter of Heidegger and the most prominent philosophical critic of artificial intelligence; co-developed the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition with his brother Stuart.Stuart DreyfusResearcherAmerican operations researcher, professor emeritus of industrial engineering and operations research at UC Berkeley; a pioneer of dynamic programming (with Richard Bellman) and co-developer of the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition with his brother Hubert.Andy GroveOperatorCEO of Intel (1987-1998) who drove the shift from memory chips to microprocessors and wrote the canonical text on operating discipline, High Output Management.Scott HighhouseResearcherIndustrial-organizational psychologist at Bowling Green State University; a leading researcher on selection decision-making and the persistent practitioner preference for unstructured interviews against the evidence.HoraceResearcherRoman lyric poet (65–8 BC) of the Augustan age who coined aurea mediocritas — the golden mean — in Odes 2.10.Claire Hughes JohnsonOperatorFormer COO of Stripe who built its operating discipline from 160 employees to over 7,000; previously a vice president at Google for twelve years running self-driving and Google Apps.Dave KelloggOperatorFormer CEO of MarkLogic and Host Analytics; four-time SaaS CEO and enterprise operator whose writing on management, metrics, and scaling is widely read by founders.Kaley KlempOperatorLeadership coach and co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership (2015).Max LandsbergOperatorExecutive coach, former McKinsey & Company partner, and author of The Tao of Coaching (1996), where the Skill/Will matrix was first published.Filip LievensResearcherOrganizational psychologist and professor at Singapore Management University; a leading researcher on personnel selection, situational judgment tests, and assessment center validity.Timothy MansfieldOperatorStrategist, culture consultant, futures researcher, and former CEO of Interaction Consortium.Danny MeyerPersonChristopher D. NyeResearcherIndustrial-organizational psychologist at Michigan State University researching personality, vocational interests, and personnel selection.Ozzie OsmanOperatorEngineering leader and founder; author of The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring, the most detailed practitioner reference on engineering hiring process.Paul R. SackettResearcherIndustrial-organizational psychologist at the University of Minnesota and a leading researcher on personnel selection validity, integrity testing, and corrections for range restriction in validation studies.Geoff SmartOperatorCo-author of WHO: The A Method for Hiring; Chairman of ghSMART, the firm that studied 1,531 hiring decisions across 51 companies to produce the scorecard method.Andy SparksOperatorFounder of Management Craft and executive coach to 15+ founders and CEOs, previously co-founder and CEO of Holloway and co-founder and COO of Mattermark.Randy StreetOperatorCo-author of WHO: The A Method for Hiring and Vice Chairman of ghSMART, the management assessment firm whose studied hiring decisions produced the scorecard method.Jeff StumpOperatorHead of Talent at Andreessen Horowitz; recruiter and hiring operator for a16z portfolio companies and co-author of the firm's hiring process guide.Simon WardleyPersonResearcher, strategist, and creator of Wardley Mapping.Liz WesselOperatorCo-founder and former CEO of WayUp, the early-career hiring platform; now a partner at First Round Capital, where she coined the term 'calibration call' as a hiring practice.Charlene ZhangResearcherIndustrial-organizational psychologist whose research focuses on personnel selection, assessment methods, and the validity of hiring predictors.Don C. ZhangResearcherIndustrial-organizational psychologist at Louisiana State University researching decision-making, risk preferences, and personnel selection.