Directionally Correct Newsletter: Previous Articles
Directionally Correct Newsletter, The #1 People Analytics Substack
By: Cole Napper
Book
Order Now! People Analytics: Using Data-Driven HR and Gen AI as a Business Asset (comes out Aug 26th, 2025)
Forbidden Ideas
Charisma Won’t Save Us: The Cult of Personality in People Analytics, Convenience or Complicity? When AI Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
Recent articles
Who Needs “A Human in the Loop” When AI Gives Itself Feedback, Beyond Prediction: Exploiting Organizational Events for Causal Inference in People Analytics, Exposing Anchoring Bias in ChatGPT and Its Inevitable Choice of Jordan as the GOAT, The Evolution of People Analytics: A Decade of Transformation, What is happening to people analytics PART ONE, TWO, & THREE, Universal Models & People Analytics, Bridging the Illusion of a Chasm, Don’t Be a Copy-Cat: People Analytics as the Antidote to HR Strategy Copy-Cats
Previous articles
What’s Old is New: The Quest for Excellence in Workforce Planning, A Historian, Demographer, & Data Scientist Walk Into a Bar…, The Phoenix & The Dragon, Why Buy When You Could Rent: SEC Reporting Guidelines, How to Measure Peak Performance, Elephant Hunting: Weighing Human vs. Algorithmic Input to Decision Making, Black Swans & People Analytics, Workforce Planning & Tech Layoffs, What’s ESG Got to Do with It?, Talent Intelligence as Competitive Intelligence, The Inquisitor & The Change Agent, Power, Politics, and People Analytics - A Treatise,
The Four Horsemen of Hierarchy, The CEO’s Guide to People Analytics,
Everyone Gets Paid the Same - A Theory, The Three Cities Problem in People Analytics, Why the Future of Work is Hard, The Role of Virtue in People Analytics
You’re leading People Analytics: Now what? series:
Creating Useful People Analytics Dashboards, Strategy and Implementation of a People Analytics Function, Executing an Effective People Analytics Project, Building a Team and Team Capability,
Overrated vs Underrated People Analytics Topics, The First Principles of Talent & Competitive Advantage, Three Key Problems to Solve
People Analytics Primers:
Building a Business Case, Career Advice, Quality of Hire, Data Exploration & Visualization Tips & Tricks, Leadership Analytics, How Do You Know When to Use Predictive Analytics?
Vendor Articles:
Tree of Value: Uniting People Analytics Workforce Planning Talent Intelligence and Behavioral Science, People Analytics Operating Model in the Age of AI, 2023 Priorities for People Analytics: Orgnostic Research, How Orgnostic Combines People Analytics & Employee Listening, Why the Orgnostic People Analytics Platform Should Be on Your Radar, Pulse Surveys are Dead: Long Live Context-Driven Surveys