168 THE ROI OF HUMAN CAPITAL
Pattern Recognitio n
We’ve established in previous chapters that there is a con-
nection, an interdependency, between and among human
capital activities, between and among functional processes,
and between human capital management outputs and func-
tional process outcomes. Logically, we should expect to see
correlations between and among some of the many vari-
ables inside those activities, processes, and outcomes. If we
look for them, we will find them. Once these correlations
have been established at any consistent rate of occurrence,
we should be able to make tentative predictions.
Now comes the problem: Things are not always what they
seem to be. Just when you thought I was going to be pro-
found, I fall back on a cliche ...