Insights on Work, Talent, Learning, Leadership, and HR Technology
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»
It’s a strange time: the economy and capital markets are booming, yet worker engagement is as low as it was during the pandemic. It’s a strange combination of events: stock market at all time highs while affordability and trust are at all time lows. Have we over-inflated our economy or is it something more systemic.... Read more»
Fuel, transportation, housing, and food costs go up, but wage growth is far behind. Is this episodic or is there something bigger going on?
A NYT article explains that in San Francisco a combined salary of $370,000 is not enough to find a nice apartment. And this issue is national. For 2026 YTD gas prices ... Read more»
Today Eightfold introduced its AI powered Candidate Agent, which fits together with its AI Interview agent. Not only is this an important announcement for Eightfold as it goes after the red-hot high volume hiring market, it’s emblematic of the whole new Multi-Agent AI solutions coming in the world of HR 2030. (I explain ... Read more»
Today Eightfold launched its AI Candidate Agent, so I wanted to explain how the multi-agent world of HR 2030 is coming together.
In this podcast I explain what Eightfold is up to and how multi-agent AI systems are now starting to sweep across talent acquisition, particularly in high-volume recruiting. And it’s more complex, interesting, ... Read more»
Over the last few years we’ve experienced a global affordability and income inequality problem and there are a myriad of policy issues at play. Yet at the same time something else is going on: wages and employee earnings have fallen way behind growth in GDP, profits, and productivity. What gives?
In this podcast, and the ... Read more»
All organizations, whether they are profit-seeking companies, non-profits, or governments, have politics. And the issues of how we make decisions, the role of top-down vs. bottoms-up governance, and how we empower people to speak up… these are existential topics in any group of people.
As the USA celebrates its 250 year anniversary and we read ... Read more»
What if every talent process you ran was AI-enhanced — not to replace what you do, but to make decisions even smarter?
That’s exactly how Matt Hoffman, Head of Talent and Partner at venture capital firm M13, operates. In this episode Matt explains how his team uses AI to help early-stage founders build a ... Read more»
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»
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»
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»
