It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

There’s an old saying in business, "It’s not what you know but who you know," and as anyone who’s done business will tell you, there is more than a little truth to that adage. In today’s LinkedIn world it's easy to connect with people, but how do you get to know the right people? For that matter, how do you really know the people who are a part of your organization and whether they are maximizing their potential? John Beck can shed a bit of light on these questions. John is CEO of The Assessment Company, a Donaldsonville-based company that specializes in employee assessment solutions - which means, specifically helping match people to the work they do best. The Assessment Company does this using different IT tools John has developed – software that measures, for instance, a candidate’s cognitive abilities, behaviors and interests, or that predicts the likelihood of certain types of conflicts with employees, or that helps unlock an employee’s hidden potential. John dev