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Some time ago, I was conducting research into organisational wisdom. If this is something you are interested in, I have two other articles on Medium that reference this and many more to come:
The basic premise was that I would take a random selection of leaders, get some organisational measures on them, get them to complete my Organisational Wisdom Sentence Completion Test (OWSCT) and ask them some interview questions regarding leadership decision-making. The prediction was that the people who scored highest in the projective psychometric would also score higher in things like performance reviews, potential assessments, 360 reviews and, of course, the interviews.
The highest correlation was with the interviews, although for the minimal sample size, the 360 reviews also showed promise. In other words, people rated leaders higher if they also scored well in my OWSCT and the leadership interviews.