Why Your Hiring Software is an Asset Liability We hear it in every boardroom: “We need people-people. We need lateral thinkers. We need problem solvers who can navigate a complex matrix organization.” Then, we filter for titles not competency. With the insurmountable walls built by automated screening systems and locked-down corporate inboxes, are we honestly expecting executive talent to revert to a 1980s analog approach? Let's be entirely clear: a senior director cannot han