From biography to evidence
Governance and executive selection
Verify outcomes, test contextual variation and adaptation, price transition risk, and select for evidence-based fit.
Verify
Baselines, trends, duration, counterfactuals, sources
Vary
Governance, market, mission, workforce, condition
Test
Adaptation, trust, learning, evidence changed
Balance
Continuity benefits and disruption burden
Decide
Context fit and portable performance
Replace the standard resume discussion
Ask questions that expose evidence
| Weak question | Stronger question |
|---|---|
| How long were you there? | Which outcomes required time to mature, and what persisted later? |
| Why did you leave? | What did you complete, what remained unfinished, and which consequences did you own? |
| Have you worked in a system like ours? | Which prior assumptions would be dangerous to import here? |
| What was your greatest success? | What was the baseline, intervention, counterfactual, result, and independent source? |
| Are you loyal? | How have you demonstrated stewardship, succession, and durable capacity? |
For a 20-year institutional leader
Test renewal
- When were your original assumptions wrong?
- Which outcomes reflect your decisions?
- Which entrenched practice did you end?
- Who can disagree with you safely?
- What would deteriorate if you left?
- Which result persisted without you?
For a multi-institution leader
Test portability
- Which results repeated across settings?
- Where did a prior strategy fail?
- Did adverse effects have time to emerge?
- What did your successor inherit?
- What explains each departure?
- How did you rebuild local trust?