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Selecting people is a serious business. Despite the efforts of both trainers and therapists adults are pretty hard to change. The package of abilities, attitudes and traits found in a person in their mid-twenties will probably quite happily (or alas unhappily) see them through to the grave.
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© 2004 Adrian Furnham
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Furnham, A. (2004). Selection mistakes. In: Management and Myths. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403990037_45
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