Insights on Work, Talent, Learning, Leadership, and HR Technology
I’ve never seen such a massive, rapid, and optimistic investment in technology as we’ve seen with AI. 2025 capital spending by Google, Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Amazon are over $900 billion, reaching almost 3% of US GDP.
Why the optimism? Businesses are convinced that AI is the productivity technology of the future, and the ... Read more»
Today, only a few weeks after acquiring Paradox and Flowise, Workday announced the acquisition of another AI company: Sana Labs (for $1.1 billion).
Sana, the company that we partner with for Galileo and Galileo Learn, is a pioneering AI-native platform designed for learning, knowledge management, and agentic applications. The Sana Agent and ... Read more»
Today we learned that OpenAI just signed a five-year deal with Oracle to spend $300 Billion on data centers (this is five-times Oracle’s annual revenues today), more or less doubling Oracle’s annualized revenue in one transaction. Oracle’s stock went up about 35% or more.
This $300 billion deal can now be added to more than ... Read more»
OpenAI, the company that’s disrupting the job market, has decided to get into job matching and placement. They call it The Open AI Jobs Platform, and its designed to provide economic opportunity for all.
Interestingly, this is the same language LinkedIn used in March of 2008 when they launched LinkedIn Recruiter. later acquiring Lynda.com... Read more»
Today Workday announced the acquisition of Paradox.ai, the pioneer in AI-based conversational recruiting. As I detail in my podcast, this deal could be far more than an addition to Workday’s recruitment offering. It could significantly expand Workday into the front-line worker market, broaden the product portfolio, and deepen Workday’s AI expertise.
Paradox was ... Read more»
Today, broadcasting from Asia, I discuss the wide range of disrupting change hitting our companies, employees, and leaders and the implications on management. As you’ll hear, AI is only one of many things changing our landscape, and we, as leaders, have to rethink our role.
I introduce the idea of a Supermanager, and I ... Read more»
I have had the pleasure of knowing Julia Stiglitz, one of the founders of Coursera, for years. Her latest venture, Uplimit, is an AI-native corporate learning platform and it is one of the revolutionary systems in the market (complimentary to Galileo Learn, by the way).
Julia and I had the opportunity to ... Read more»
Here’s my quick recap of HR Technology 2025, which was jam-packed with vendors like never before. The HR traffic was down but the vendor traffic was higher than I’ve seen in years.
Why? Well $800 billion has been invested in AI infrastructure this year and many of these software companies are taking advantage of it. ... Read more»
Today, only a few weeks after acquiring Paradox and Flowise, Workday announced the acquisition of another AI company: Sana Labs.
Sana, the company that we partner with for Galileo and Galileo Learn, is a pioneering AI-native platform designed for learning, knowledge management, and agentic applications. The Sana Agent and Sana Learning platforms give ... Read more»
Preview of my big HR Tech keynote!
This week I give you in-depth perspectives on the massive AI tech bubble, the massive revolution in talent acquisition systems, and what to expect from M&A in the future.
We’re in a whole new world of HR Technology and vendors are scrambling to buy, build, or ... Read more»
This week I summarize some massive news about the job market, job creation, and OpenAI’s move to enter the world of AI skills development and talent matching. Please read the detailed article for more details.
In addition to diving into these topics, I also tell you my story of “learning agents” and why self-development and ... Read more»
This week I’m excited to share my interview with Taylor Stockton, Chief Innovation Officer for the US Department of Labor.
You will learn about the American AI Action Plan and the detailed America’s Talent Strategy: Building the Workforce for the Golden Age, two strategy documents which describe how the Federal Government is ... Read more»
US Labor Day is always a time to celebrate workers. Well this year, unlike years before, the entire labor market is changed. Not only are many front-line workers in high demand, white-collar workers are experiencing a hiring slowdown and automation is impacting everyone. And for the first time in my career, the BLS expects very ... Read more»
In this podcast Kathi Enderes interviews Joe Freed, Chief Product officer at Perceptyx, explains the company’s strategy to extend its employee engagement platform to provide nudges, manager tools, and in-depth analysis of employee needs.
While the employee survey is not dead yet, you’ll see where things are going. Perceptyx is a well-known survey ... Read more»
The AI market boom took a pause last week when GPT-5 and some new research from MIT appeared. As you’ll hear, the expectations for AI are extraordinarily high and that causes a lot of bubble effects. Today I explain this bubble and where it’s going.
I also discuss our latest experiences with AI transformation in ... Read more»
This week I discuss Workday’s acquisition of Paradox, the pioneer in AI-powered conversational recruiting.
As I describe in detail, this is a big deal – and it goes beyond Workday’s ability to now offer high-volume, conversational recruitment. Talent Acquisition itself is about to radically change with AI, and this moves Workday into a leading position ... Read more»
The new battle for AI supremacy is now moving to the application development space, or IDE (Integrated Development Environments). These companies, like Cursor, Windsurf, Github Copilot, Replit, Google AI Studio, and Microsoft Power tools, are exploding with growth. Why? Because in the world of AI, we’re all application developers!
(Listen to “We’re All Software ... Read more»
The statistics on employee engagement and happiness are shocking. Gallup’s 2025 data shows that only 21% of workers are fully engaged (down 10% from last year), only 27% of managers are engaged (down 11%), 66% of employees are “suffering,” and 8% are “struggling.”
And there’s more distressing news. The 2025 World Happiness Report shows that ... Read more»
In this podcast I interview Eric Mosley, the Founder and CEO of Workhuman, a $Billion dollar company that pioneered the market for employee recognition. Today Workhuman has more than 7.7 million users and is widely used by many of the largest companies in the world.
What does Workhuman do? Well they help you ... Read more»
This week I have an update on the “real world” of AI transformation, based on some important conversations I’ve had (and these folks will join the podcast soon.)
First, I talked with the Department of Labor and also reviewed new research from Goldman Sachs and we do find that “AI is not wiping out jobs.” ... Read more»
