This brings up a good point…

I was reading the latest issue recently of Fast Company and it posed a question that had me scratching my head and pondering further, especially in my line of work. Does interviewing someone really determine a future performance? Of course we like to consider ourselves excellent judges of others characters, but aren’t we all on our “best behavior” when knowing someone is going to be judging us? With financial rewards (i.e. a salary) being awarded at the end of the process, it’s likely that not everyone is going to be entirely truthful…

The article mentions Oprah’s book club selections that have come out in recent years that have resulted in questions regarding certain author’s. James Frey and his “memoir” A Million Little Pieces was hailed as an excellent piece of writing from the Queen of Media herself – but when she and her fact checkers negated to understand the whole picture of his experiences, books were pulled from the shelves while Oprah and James had quite the uncomfortable chat in front of all of America…the real question is – Was the book still an excellent piece of writing? Regardless of fact or fiction?

The truth is that not everything is clearly cut in black and white these days, much as our media and society rules would like us to believe. Sometimes you just have to go with what you can…your “gut” feeling.