Insights on Work, Talent, Learning, Leadership, and HR Technology
Today I share some research we’re doing on wages in the inflationary “AI-economy.” While many people are studying the labor market (it’s a huge industry), it’s not hard to see that most wages are not keeping up with inflation, yet some are. As you’ll hear we now see the “Superworker” jobs and roles that are ... Read more»
This week I wade into a global philosophical debate about whether advanced AI systems have consciousness. In other words, are they aware of their feelings and do they truly reflect on their own thoughts?
Well we do know that LLM-based AI systems do “talk to themselves,” as new Anthropic has been studying in the J-Space... Read more»
I’ve been talking with hundreds of companies about AI and employee issues, and in many ways the entire world of HR, management, and leadership has changed.
Employers are worried about job redesign, AI solutions, skills, and strategic of high-volume hiring. They’re slowing the hiring process, trying to be more strategic about growth, with a frenzied ... Read more»
AI-powered recruiting has so much potential, yet job seekers, recruiters, and executives remain frustrated. This massive $100+ billion market is filled with AI systems that work very well, yet as you’ll hear, this market is still immature.
Not only are job seekers increasingly frustrated with their difficulty finding a job, employers are complaining that they’re ... Read more»
Today I discuss Workday and the potential Silver Lake buyout, Meta’s personal AI strategy and it’s potential for business, update on Galileo, and our new research on frontline work. Most of today’s podcast is “analyst perspectives” but lots of direction is now clear.
The GHRE Global HR Excellence masterclass starts in September: if you want ... Read more»
I’ve been an HR analyst and consultant for 30 years and there’s always a story that HR is “useless” or “a waste of time” or “going away.” And this will always continue, because most managers really do believe they are already experts at this domain.
And at this month’s SHRM conference, according to Bloomberg, ... Read more»
The job market is changing in unpredictable ways. Human Resources, a profession often considered optional and filled with bureaucracy, has been a target for AI disruption. Yet when you look at the numbers, HR job postings are growing faster than overall US employment. (details here.)
What’s happening and why this strange trend?
As ... Read more»
As AI experts leave Google and new startups emerge, engineers are consumed with Superintelligence: building models that can reason, learn, and capture “all the world’s knowledge.” While model evolution is important, I believe we’re going in a different direction: toward vertical, domain and company specific AI that exponentially builds proprietary (not general) knowledge.
In this ... Read more»
The word of the decade is “Agency” – giving each of us the power, tools, and opportunity to do what we want with our life, jobs, and careers. This new buzzword, now one of the top memes in politics, has been coming for many years. In this podcast I discuss the 50+ year of history ... Read more»
The word “intelligence” is a loaded word. Here’s what Elon Musk said to the Economist last week:
“I think AI may exceed the sum of human intelligence in around five years. There really won’t be anything that AI can’t do better than humans, apart from being human, perhaps.”
Well “being human” is what intelligence is ... Read more»
New names: Kimi K3, Llama, Nemotron, Mistral, Cohere, Deepseek, Phi-4 – these are just a few of the fast-growing open source models from major AI providers. These systems threaten the business models and financial plans of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and X.ai. They perform at levels close to Frontier models and the can run up to ... Read more»
Wages play a huge role in frontline work. The 70%+ of employees who work in these roles often jump from job to job, employer to employer, just to make a few more dollars per hour.
Here’s the dynamic: a typical restaurant, retail, service, or transportation job requires no deep pre-requisite skill (Type 1 and Type ... Read more»
SharkNinja is one of the most fascinating, innovative, high-performing companies I’ve seen. Elizabeth Norberg, the People and Culture leader, is also one of the most interesting CHROs I’ve met. So with that introduction, I urge you to take some time to listen.
There’s a lot to learn here, but overall this is a story ... Read more»
This week we learned of OpenAI’s Jailbreak security breach, which opens the door to many new issues with enterprise AI and HR 2030. This week, following up on the introduction of SHL’s Superworker AI assessment, I dig into the implications of this new AI behavior and discuss the five major “skills” or ... Read more»
SHL, one of the pioneers in industrial and psychological assessment, has now built a new instrument to assess an individual’s readiness for AI.
Sara Gutierrez, Chief Science Officer at SHL, explains how SHL is addressing this challenge.
Drawing on SHL’s 45-plus years of talent intelligence and behavioral science and a large study of millions ... Read more»
