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The Rise Of The Supermanager: A New Role In The World of AI

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»

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What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas – HR Tech 2025-6

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»

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How Sana Transforms Workday’s Learning Platform, And Much 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»

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Workday Acquires Sana To Transform Its Learning Platform And Much 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»

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The Job Market Crash, Open AI’s Job Strategy, And My Experience With Learning Agents

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»

OpenAI Gets Into Job Placement While The Job Market Crashes

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»

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Labor Day Arrives: How AI Changes Everything For Workers

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»

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Will AI Obsolete Employee Surveys? Perceptyx Says AI Can Do Much 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»

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Is Superintelligence Nonsense? Why The AI Market Stumbled.

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»

Workday to Acquire Paradox. A Bigger Deal Than You Think.

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»