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Fearless Future or End of All Work? 3 Observations About AI and Jobs
In April 2025, an AI startup named Mechanize grabbed everyone’s attention with some jarring words in its launch announcement: “[our] explicit goal is to automate all work as quickly as possible.” In May, Anthropic’s CEO sounded the alarm that AI would soon cause the mass extinction of jobs, eliminating half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next five years. Workday announced plans to cut its headcount by 1,800 jobs. Amazon recently said it would reduce its headcount by 14,000 roles....
AI Adoption Without Results? Most Companies Miss This Critical Factor
Last month, a Danish research team dropped a surprising finding: 40% of employees across a variety of roles are using Gen AI chatbots weekly and saying that it saves them time, but company-wide productivity, in terms of hours worked or wages earned, hasn’t budged. Why would individuals see benefits from AI adoption, but not companies? An important part of managing change in any company, especially when adopting innovations like AI, is to start with an understanding of the readiness for...
5 AI Skills Every HR Pro Must Master (and why they matter for everyone else)
When LinkedIn's "Work Change" report came out in January 2025, they said out loud what we're all thinking. "Professionals can no longer ignore AI or assume it does not apply to their job. AI will be relevant to every job in the future and woven into most of our tasks." (Scary bolding mine.) And I'm apt to believe them. LinkedIn scans thousands of profiles that have added new skills. They also survey 2,500 businesses and 2,000 leaders. The work landscape is quickly shifting thanks to the AI...
Stop Wasting Money on AI Until You Address This Hidden Readiness Gap
Everyone’s investing in agentic workflows, digital twins, open source LLMs, prompting, RAG, and LanguageGraphs. The list goes on and on… But the truth is that even with unlimited access to the best AI tools and systems, companies will waste millions if their workforces aren’t ready for change. Workers won’t take risks experimenting. Adoption champions won’t step forward. Employees won’t creatively add AI to their workflow. Teams will see AI as a hindrance to work, not an enabler. An unready...
5 Human Skills HR Pros Need in the AI Era (And Why Everyone Should Develop Them)
Soft skills. Power skills. Human skills. No one can really decide what to call these non-technical, ‘developed capacities’ to learn, interact with others, and manage one’s work. But leaders do agree on one thing: these skills are becoming the differentiators in the AI era. Josh Bersin, a leading HR analyst, prefers the term "power skills" over "soft skills." He argues these non-routine cognitive and social abilities deserve the upgrade in terminology because they're the most difficult...
The Hidden Power of AI Adoption at Work: 3 Wins Beyond Efficiency
What People Leaders Need to Know THANK YOU for joining us for our first newsletter issue! It’s a privilege to continue the conversation in a more thoughtful space. To kick things off, I wanted to share a perspective that I feel often gets missed: AI at work isn’t just about efficiency. In this essay, I'll share three surprising ways AI adoption unlocks additional benefits, ranging from deep work to democratizing expertise. Spoiler: the real transformation happens when people stop asking “how...
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