Ludek’s Blog About People Analytics


Ludek's Blog About People Analytics

Do Insights Discovery ‘colors’ relate to self-reported skills?

insights discovery
skills
psychometrics
validity

A mini validity check from a curious data dive.

Making talk cheap: How GenAI may disrupt labor-market signalling

ai
generative ai
labor economics
future of work
job market

About a super interesting recent study by Silbert & Galdin (2025) - "Making Talk Cheap: Generative AI and Labor Market Signaling" - that examines how LLMs are altering the economics of hiring.

A graph approach to reporting structures: stop wrestling recursion

organizational analytics
graph analysis
python

About a cleaner, faster way to compute some org metrics.

Can a simple coin flip help you decide and avoid overanalyzing?

decision making
behavioral science
cognitive science

We all, at least occasionally, find ourselves stuck between two options - endlessly weighing the pros and cons, searching for additional information, or asking everyone around us for advice.

Getting (more) causal insights from employee survey data (without an RCT)

employee experience
survey data
causal inference
panel data
longitudinal research

While I was recently in the middle of processing our annual employee survey data, I started thinking about how to make the analysis results even more actionable and impactful.

Big consultancies in the skills semantic space

skills
skills taxonomy
consulting
embeddings

A quick experiment showing how transformer-based embeddings can reveal the semantic identity of major consulting firms within a skill taxonomy.

Testing my GenAI skepticism

agentic ai
data analysis
generative ai
data science

About my hands-on test of agentic AI in data analysis.

Conspiracy theories as a specific example of overfitting?

bayesian brain hypothesis
computational psychiatry
cognitive science
data science
conspiracy theories
anxiety

An interesting perspective on the nature of conspiracy theories, in the spirit of the book 'Algorithms to Live By' from Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths.

Agentic AI for visual data exploration

agentic ai
generative ai
corporate culture
employee experience
glassdoor

For those who might be interested, I'm sharing an output from my experimentation with agentic AI frameworks like LangChain and LangGraph in the context of data insights democratization.

Can genAI help people managers lead better?

leadership
leadership effectiveness
leadership judgement indicator
generative ai

Sharing results from testing genAI’s leadership judgment.

The hidden trade-offs in corporate culture?

corporate culture
psychometric network analysis
employee experience
glassdoor

Exploration of the CultureX data on corporate culture using psychometric network analysis.

Dimensional Traits vs. Personality Types

personality
big five
ipip
typology
clustering
dimensionality reduction
psychometrics

Sharing an interactive dataviz showing why cramming the complexity of personality into a few types just doesn’t work.

When to forgive, when to close the book

nerd rant
thinking out loud
p-values

A short rant-ish post about trust, mistakes, and knowing when to stop reading.

Big Five vs. HEXACO

personality
big five
hexaco
predictive validity
job performance
counterproductive work behavior

Is one of them actually better at predicting work behavior?

Want to maximize your impact as a leader?

leadership effectiveness
causal inference

Forget the CEO chair and become a sports coach or a politician in an autocracy instead 🙃

Adjusting priors on your “emotional radar” for smoother cross-cultural encounters

expressiveness
cross-cultural differences

On interesting research that may come in handy during summer vacations abroad.

Tracking talent moves in the (in)famous 9-box grid over time

data visualization
talent management

Crowdsourcing ideas for effective ways to visualize talent moves in the 9-box grid over time.

Happy today, richer tomorrow?

happiness research
positive psychology
life satisfaction
causal inference

☀️ As many of us now take a summer break to recharge and boost our happiness, here’s some good news: it might even pay off financially 🤑

How personality risks co-occur?

leadership risks
derailers
hogan assessment
hogan development survey
personality psychology
psychometrics
network analysis

Some highlights from exploring a larger sample of Hogan Development Survey data.

What does a typical people manager value chain look like?

people management
manager
value chain

Sharing a working draft of a people manager value chain—mapping how specific manager actions drive people outcomes, team performance, and ultimately business results. Feedback and suggestions welcome 🙂

When self-selected behavior is a blessing, not a headache

measurement
self-selection
proxy measures
employee data
behavioral data

Self-selection as a measurement opportunity?

Are you crazy enough and in the right way to fit the craziness required by your job?

job fit
career advisory
cognitive biases

Listing some key takeaways from an insightful article by Adam Mastroianni on job fit.

Using Doppelgänger for career pathing?

career pathing
causal inference

Exploring an idea around using counterfactual and hypothetical scenarios to help employees navigate their career options.

ONA as a tool for exploring the skill space in your company?

skills
skills-based organization
organisational network analysis
network analysis
career pathing
learning and development

As we move toward a skill-based organization at Sanofi, it prompted me to think about new opportunities for applying Organizational Network Analysis (ONA).