In a story in the Express Tribune on 19 March 2019, the governnment has announced that heads of important institutions will be selected by a selection committee comprising of experts from the private sector. The list of institutions include constitutional bodies, regulatory bodies and autonomous bodies in the federal government. The heads of 91 institutions need to be evaluated and appointed. For any government and economy, these institutions are important and improving how they are managed is a first step towards improving governance. The best predictor of future performance is past performance! I hope that apart from evaluating technical competence and cognitive ability, the selection committee also looks at other key factors that can be hard to evaluate. For example, is there any tendency towards corruption? It doesn't have to be corruption on a large-scale; low-level one is equally bad. Personality tests and psychological profiling can offer innovative ways for cutting corr