Domain 02 / Intelligence

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Perspectives on psychometrics, executive screening, and organisational behaviour. A register of intelligence and analysis for rigorous human capital assessment.

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REF:2026.00808 Aug 2026

What Could Your Assistant Take Off Your Plate?

Most executives delegate a fraction of what a capable assistant can own. Our delegation menu runs to hundreds of items across thirty-one areas of work. Here is a taste of it, and the four questions that decide what should never reach you at all.

08 Aug 2026AUTH:HAL

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REF:2026.00708 Aug 2026

The First Ninety Days: Why Assistant Hires Fail Before They Begin

Most failed assistant hires were lost before day one, at the moment the role was specified. Fit is decided at selection, proven in the first ninety days, and almost never rescued afterwards.

08 Aug 2026AUTH:HAL

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REF:2026.00607 Aug 2026

Why You Are Still Drowning in Admin After Hiring an Assistant

You hired an assistant and your workload barely moved. The problem is usually not the assistant. It is a delegation structure that was never built, measured, or matched to how you work.

07 Aug 2026AUTH:HAL

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REF:2026.00506 Aug 2026

Seven Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Their First Assistant

Most first assistant hires fail for predictable reasons. Founders hire from the CV, delegate tasks instead of authority, and skip the one thing that predicts success: working-style fit.

06 Aug 2026AUTH:HAL

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REF:2026.00405 Aug 2026

The Real Cost of Hiring the Wrong Executive Assistant

A wrong assistant hire does not just cost a salary. It costs at least 30 percent of first-year earnings, months of executive attention, and the compound cost of everything that did not get done.

05 Aug 2026AUTH:HAL

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REF:2026.00321 Jul 2026

How the HK Index is built: forty items, four Operating Modes

One instrument, two profiles, one score. Forty items score four Operating Modes, positions are reported as zones between two named poles, and a sitting that fails its integrity checks returns no result at all.

21 Jul 2026AUTH:HAL

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REF:2026.00202 Jul 2026

What a CV cannot tell you

A CV records what a person has done. It is silent on how they did it, what it cost the people around them, and whether the same approach survives a new principal.

02 Jul 2026AUTH:HAL

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REF:2026.00111 Jun 2026

The hire beside you

Principals audit their salespeople every quarter and their assistant almost never. Yet no role touches more of a principal's life, judgement and time.

11 Jun 2026AUTH:HAL

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