Human Nature – Kurt Kovit

08Jul 2015 by Kovit 2 Comments

Company Visions

Company visions, mission statements, values… what a load of crap right? Wrong! Up to a few months ago I use to believe that having a vision or a mission statement was plain bullshit. But when you stop to think about it without a vision you are all over the place and not sure in which direction you should be going. A company should be group of people with the same set of common values and beliefs. The reason for this is trust. I like to use an example by Simon Sinek. When you are abroad and meet a person from your birth place, you become immediate friends. There is immediate trust between the two of you. The reason is because you know that the people from the same country share…

The Scientific method for interviews

Human Nature

I have been doing interviews for quite a while now and would like to share with you a method that I like to call the scientific method for technical interviewing. First of all the overall process goes as follows: Observation > Hypotheses > Prediction > Experiment > Conclusion I have to confess that during an interview I am not fast enough to do all the required steps so I do some work before. In any case let us go through the stages one by one. Phase 1: Observation Interviews are a short period of time to assess if the person in front of you could be an asset to the company. The candidate probably feels nervous, which will make the whole process harder for both of us. So the first few…

High Speed Mono Tasking

Human Nature

This should come to no surprise: humans can't multi task. Women can do it better but overall we still suck at this. Furthermore doing things in parallel is much slower than doing things in series. With this in mind we should be focusing on a single task at a time and try to achieve high-speed mono-tasking. Lets take a simple example to proof this theory. Let us assume that you have 2 tasks each of which take 10 mins to complete. If you do one task after the other you will get the following performance: Time Task 1 (time left) Task 2 (time left) 0 min 10 min 10 min 2 min 8 min 10 min 4 min 6 min 10 min 6 min 4 min 10 min 8 min…