Insights on Work, Talent, Learning, Leadership, and HR Technology
The explosive AI market is changing everything, and even Handshake, the leader in university recruiting and early career growth, is taking the bait. Today Handshake acquired Uplimit, one of the pioneers in AI-native corporate learning, with a goal of building a massive AI skills academy and job network for young workers.
I talked ... Read more»
While Anthropic and OpenAI have massive valuations, the ROI from enterprise AI is coming from applications and data, not the model itself. It’s not unlike the relational database market, which went through a similar shift in the 1990s.
Podcast here: Is AI Becoming A Commodity? Or Is it Just A Normal Enterprise Technology like other?... Read more»
This week we welcome 450 senior HR leaders to our fifth annual Irresistible Conference at the beautiful USC campus in Los Angeles. I want to highlight the big announcements we’re making.
First, the launch of The Josh Bersin Institute and the Global HR Excellence Certification Program.
Yes, we’ve taken all our research, case studies, ... Read more»
One of the most interesting (and disruptive) aspects to enterprise AI is the simple fact that AI Agents and Superagents (read our HR 2030 architecture for more) are not “systems” or applications in the traditional sense. They are “your systems” that learn, grow, and “become your company.”
In other words, an AI Agent that does ... Read more»
Let me pose a controversial (but logical) premise: the price we pay for AI tools is going to start to skyrocket. And this price increase is going to have some very disruptive effects.
First, why will AI prices likely rise?
It’s pretty simple: this is extremely expensive technology to deliver. Already,spending on data centers, ... Read more»
Now that AI is part of our daily life, we see its impact on management. In this article I’d like to explain this important topic, and introduce you to our new research, “The Rise of the Supermanager.”
A Brief History of Management
If you read Peter Drucker and look at decades of research, ... Read more»
This week Korn Ferry announced the $1.1 Billion acquisition of AMS, one of the leading providers of enterprise recruitment outsourcing. As I overview in this podcast, this deal demonstrates several things:
First, the talent acquisition space has become enormously important and is rapidly changing with AI, demographic changes, and internal productivity initiatives. AMS has ... Read more»
Today I overview why the Frontier AI vendors are changing as they compete for revenue and how that opens new doors for corporate AI solutions. Remember, your personalization of the technology is more important than the model itself.
Then I discuss our new HR 2030 architectural research and how rules, policies, and security are so ... Read more»
Sana Learning is a revolutionary product in the $400 Billion L&D market. Today I sat down with Rita Azevedo, Director of Client Engagement at Sana, to talk about everything. What is AI-native learning, how does Sana Learning fit into Workday’s strategy, and how do companies like Polestar, Rolls Royce, Travelers, and others revolutionize L&D ... Read more»
As AI vendors hype “recursive self-improvement” and other scary features, we see more and more “mainstreaming” of AI technology in business. In other words, the AI does not solve problems by itself: we as HR and IT leaders need to clearly define our needs and then buy, build, and tune the technologies we buy.
Some ... Read more»
We’re now a week past Irresistible 2026 and I want to recap what has been happening in enterprise AI and explain the HR 2030 program. First I discuss how the entire AI industry is over-inflated and what that means to enterprise users. Next I explain why the $1.5 Trillion invested in AI is leading ... Read more»
As we prepare for these juggernauts to go public, I’m reminded of Yahoo, Excite, and AOL who dominated the first four years of the internet. Despite their lead, Google stole the market away. Could the same thing happen again?
The argument is not that these companies aren’t powerful, but rather that they’re so committed to ... Read more»
Here’s my brief recap of the amazing Irresistible 2026 (photos coming), and my discussion with clients about many things, including the new insane costs of AI. I just read a study that Ramp (credit card) did, discovering that the top AI users are spending $7500 per month per employee on AI. (Yikes!)
That aside, the ... Read more»
Welcome to IRRESISTIBLE 2026 at USC in beautiful Los Angeles! Today we welcome 450 of our closest friends and introduce The Josh Bersin Institute Global HR Excellence Certification (GHRE). This is all focused on preparing you for HR 2030, which we also introduced today.
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As we prepare to launch the HR 2030 Initiative next week, I pose an important question. What IS the real role of Human Resources in a world of AI, automation, and business acceleration?
As you’ll hear, we believe HR is no longer the policy police, recruiting, training, or pay department. In a world of Agents, ... Read more»
This week was pretty exciting: Microsoft unveiled its Frontier Fine Tuning along with a new hardware stack and developer tools, while NVIDIA launched its foray into PC powered AI. Two big themes here: first is reducing computing cost as data centers start driving up all our AI cost, and second to make AI ever more ... Read more»
I’ve decided that the biggest challenge we have in AI is now keeping track of the new words being created. Words like harness, layer, mesh, vector, orchestrator, tools, surface, memory – they all mean very special things. And engineers and marketing people keep dreaming up new ones (spine? pattern? control plane? MCP? LangChain? headless? MCP? ... Read more»
Here’s an update on Google’s Gemini Flash 3.5 (bad name) and how it impacts the enterprise market, an update on Google AI in Search, and an update on the HR 2030 architecture coming out at Irresistible. I also want to thank you as a listener, we discovered that this podcast now reaches 4 million HR ... Read more»
What if the biggest mistake companies make with AI transformation is treating it as a technology problem? Laurent Aufils, Chief People Officer at Orange Business, knows that it’s all about people.
In this episode, Kathi Enderes sits down with Laurent to explore how one of the world’s leading digital services companies transformed its entire ... Read more»
The Pope’s Encyclical on AI is well worth reading. It’s not only about the perils and risks of technology, it’s really a manifesto about power. I found the essay extremely valuable to read so I wanted to share my perspectives on the topic and the fascinating analogy between AI and The Tower of Babel.
I ... Read more»
This week I attended the Sana AI Summit in NYC, so I wanted to share the various conversations and new ideas that came from this multi-disciplinary meeting. I hope my summary helps you see some of the bigger issues at play here.
Will AI destroy the job market? What is the real economic value ... Read more»
