Lies of HR

Martin Spiteri Schillig

国アメリカ合衆国

ジャンル Business, Careers, Management

言語 EN

エピソード数 3

最新 19.06.2026

Most of what HR preaches sounds good on an office wall and falls apart the moment it meets reality. Lies of HR takes one comfortable HR belief at a time — "people first," "hire for culture fit," "engagement equals productivity" — calls it what it is, and takes it apart in three steps: the myth, the cold truth underneath it, and the reframe an honest leader uses instead. Not HR-bashing — just swapping things that sound good for things that actually work. Created by Martin Spiteri Schillig, drawn from sixteen years running HR inside iGaming, working alongside founders and leaders who were openly sceptical of much of what HR preached.

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Engagement Equals Productivity — The Dial That's Wired to Nothing | Lies of HR #3 19.06.2026 18分

"Push the engagement score up and performance follows." It's a multi-billion-dollar corporate obsession — and the dashboard dial it's built on is wired to nothing.In Lie No. 3 of Lies of HR, we take it apart: how the whole industry misread its own science (correlation is not causation), what longitudinal research actually found about the engagement-performance link, why global engagement can fall to record lows while business output holds steady, and how the myth has mutated into AI surveillance that measures activity instead of value. Then the reframe — fix the work, not the mood.The voices are AI; the arguments come from Martin Spiteri Schillig's sixteen years in HR.Full written breakdown, sources, and the mailing list: https://liesofhr.com/lies/engagement-productivity
Hire for Culture Fit — Why It Backfires | Lies of HR #2 19.06.2026 19分

"We only hire for culture fit." It sounds like a commitment to quality — but in practice it often just means "people like us," and it quietly builds a comfortable, fragile monoculture where nobody sees the problem coming from a new angle.In Lie No. 2 of Lies of HR, we take it apart: where "fit" really comes from, why it screens out the difference a team actually needs, how AI threatens to automate yesterday's hiring bias at scale, and why hiring for culture add — not culture fit — is the more honest goal.The voices are AI; the arguments come from Martin Spiteri Schillig's sixteen years in HR.Full written breakdown, sources, and the mailing list: https://liesofhr.com/lies/cultural-fit
People First — HR's Most Comfortable Lie | Lies of HR #1 19.06.2026 21分

"We put our people first." It's on every careers page — and it's a promise reality eventually forces companies to break. In the first episode of Lies of HR, we take the myth apart: why it erodes trust, how AI is exposing the gap between what companies say and do, and what an honest leader does instead.The voices are AI; the arguments come from Martin Spiteri Schillig's sixteen years in HR.Full written breakdown, sources, and the mailing list: https://liesofhr.com/lies/people-first