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Before Jordan Peterson became the world’s most polarizing intellectual, he was a salesman. In the late 1990s, he flew to corporate HQs across North America to pitch a piece of hiring software called ExamCorp, a 90-minute psych assessment he’d developed with colleagues as a young assistant psychology professor at Harvard. It was simple, a personality test and some computerized tasks click certain objects, generate words that start with, say, the letter H. Peterson told managers it could help them hire the right person for a position, and that tests like these had reliably predicted the job performance of corporate administrators, factory workers, pharmacists and U.S. Navy servicemen. No one bought it. They said it was too expensive, too time-consuming. They balked when they tried the test for themselves and didn’t like their results. When they asked Peterson who his other customers were, he had to admit that there were none. ....
PRH Canada Divides Knopf and Random House By Ed Nawotka | Dec 10, 2020 Penguin Random House Canada has announced that it is splitting the Knopf Random House Canada publishing group into two different imprints: Knopf Canada and Random House Canada. Each imprint will operate independently. The change will be effective as of January 2021, at which point the company will have seven divisions: Doubleday Canada, Penguin Canada, McClelland & Stewart, Young Readers, Appetite, Knopf Canada, and Random House Canada. Key personnel will shift into new roles. Anne Collins, currently publisher of Knopf Random House Canada will take the role of Executive Editor and Vice President, Random House Canada. Martha Kanya-Forstner, currently v-p of Penguin Random House Canada, adds the role of publisher of Knopf Canada. ....