Justin Menkes

Justin Menkes

Justin Menkes is managing director of the Executive Intelligence Group, which is partnered with Spencer Stuart, to help identify, hire, and promote exceptional leaders and managers throughout the world. Author of Executive Intelligence, he has been cited by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker for his work on hiring practices and earned a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Claremont Graduate University, where he studied under the late Peter Drucker. He has an M.A. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Haverford College. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Are you hiring people who are smart or people who have executive intelligence. Justin talks with Jim about why we should be making the distinctions and how to do it.
The brain is something you can train and exercise, and Justin talks with Jim about how to understand when the brain can get you in trouble and how to train it to deliver better results.
Justin joins Jim for the first time to talk about why we should be hiring for intelligence and not on superficial criteria, like looks and charm. Justin also identifies some tips on how to interview and hire intelligent people.