I Hate It Here · 2026-08-05 · 58 min
Featured Guest: Jackie Sahm (Vice President of Integrated Solutions, Hogan Assessments) - We've built a world where the people who get promoted aren't always the people who should be leading, and we have enough data to stop this madness and do something about it! In this latest episode of The Leadership Divide, Hogan Assessment's Jackie Sahm and I get into why orgs keep confusing performance with potential, why confidence gets mistaken for competence, and how we accidentally engineer the exact leadership problems we're all complaining about. This situation is far more common than it should be, but the good news is that it doesn’t have to be! 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:56 - What’s The Difference Between Performance And Potential? 00:04:20 - What Are Orgs Actually Measuring? 00:07:01 - Why Leaders Mistake Similarity For Potential 00:11:11 - Should Intuition Ever Drive Promotions? 00:13:37 - What Does The Leadership Effectiveness Gap Look Like? 00:19:50 - Why Doesn’t The System Get Fixed? 00:27:05 - What Does A Better Talent Process Look Like? 00:33:21 - Where HR Should Start 00:42:02 - Should We Audit Promotion Decisions? 00:46:11 - What Do Orgs Keep Getting Wrong About Leadership?
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