Can AI Replace Human Intuition? I Think Not, And Here’s Why It Matters.
After many dozens of conversations with companies and AI vendors about AI transforming work, I’m left with one burning question. If we actually succeed in automating all our work tasks, data analysis, coding, and...
America’s AI Action Plan, Quick Perspectives
Yesterday the White House released The American AI Action Plan, a 28-page policy document which covers many of the most important national (and global issues) we face in the new world of AI. As...
Democracy vs. Autocracy In Leadership, Which Way Should You Go?
One of the most fundamental issues in business is “how we make decisions.” Should top management make all the decisions? Or should we let front-line staff collaborate and weigh in on company strategies. Well...
The Four “New SoftSkills” We Need To Thrive In The Age of AI
Now that everyone is deep into AI transformation and flooded with personal productivity tools, it’s time to take a step back and consider “what new capabilities (not skills) do we need to thrive here?”...
Explaining The Massive People Data Market: How It Works & What You Need To Know
This week Lightcast, one of the largest providers of people, jobs, and labor market data, acquired Rhetorik, a leading data collection company. Since this space has become highly strategic and ever-more essential to HR...
Fear In The Workforce: Why Workers Are Afraid And What To Do About It.
This week I had a variety of meetings with companies and looked at some new research on the impact of AI in the workplace. Despite all the positive things going on in the economy,...
Prompting Is Programming: We’re All Software Engineers Now!
One of the most explosive changes in our new world of AI is this: every one of us can now “program” our AI assistants as if we were engineers. In other words, the “prompts”...
Maki People: Maxime Legardez Coquin Reimagines Recruitment with AI Agents
Max Legardez Coquin is one of the most fascinating entrepreneurs I’ve met. His new company, Maki People, is likely to revolutionize talent acquisition, and then revolutionize much of talent management. In this interview I...
How AI Architectures Are Different, And Why This Changes Everything
In this episode I discuss our findings on AI systems architectures, and how they are going to completely change our HR Technology stack. As you’ll hear, I’m not predicting a quick disruption of $50+...
Understanding The Middle East: Business, Culture, and Leadership
This week we finished a series of events in Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai and met with more than 100 company HR leaders. In today’s podcast I discuss the business and HR issues these...
A Rise In Pessimism. Five Suggestions From Our Research And My Life.
New research shows a level of pessimism we haven’t seen in a long time. While there are many reasons for this (politics, climate, economy, AI fears), we all need to do something about it....
Suzanne McGovern, CHRO of Ipsy
Suzanne McGovern, CHRO of Ipsy, has many years of experience in consulting, HR, DEI, and business growth (PwC, IBM, Splunk) and now leads HR for a billion dollar beauty company. In this thought-proving interview,...
Building An AI-Powered Superworker Company: Five Keys To Success
This week I summarize my Irresistible Keynote and explain the five keys to building an AI-powered Superworker company. And as you’ll hear, they revolve around the value of people, not the value of technology....
How Mastercard Uses AI to Rewire HR for Employee and Business Performance
Anshul Sheopuri, Executive Vice President, People Operations & Insights, Mastercard, talks with Kathi Enderes about the company’s method for using AI in HR. From Build vs Buy decisions and approaches to govern the roll-out...
How WPP, The World’s Leading Ad Agency, Is Transforming Itself With AI
This is a fascinating conversation with Josh Newman, the Global Head of People Strategy & Experience, at WPP. WPP, the world’s leading advertising agency, has around 110,000 employees and a fascinating agency-specific organization around...