A great personality hire isn't the same as someone you can trust with a deadline. This post makes the case for what actually separates the two, and why the difference is costing organizations more than anyone has bothered to calculate.

For more than 25 years I have been having this conversation in rooms that looked very different from each other. City council chambers. Employer roundtables. The Capitol. The conversation is always the same: professional character is not a soft skill. It is infrastructure. And the numbers prove it.

Most organizations can feel the character gap before they can name it. The exit interview said it was the commute. It is almost always something else. Here is what the character gap is actually costing your organization.

Most organizations treat professional character as a soft skill. Plinth Advisors was built on a different premise. Here is what it actually means, and what it is costing your organization to overlook it.