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CEOs Are Furious About Employees Texting in Meetings
Jamie Dimon says it’s gone too far. Others are devising new measures, from hiding Wi-Fi passwords to installing the corporate equivalent of the swear jar .
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Oct 29, 20251 min read
Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite
Layoffs at companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending young and experienced workers alike into unwelcoming market Quick Summary Major employers including Amazon.com have announced significant white-collar job cuts. The surge in white-collar layoffs is partly driven by companies adopting AI to handle tasks previously done by employees. Opportunities for blue-collar and specialized workers are increasing.
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Oct 29, 20251 min read
How to Detect Bias in Large Language Models
Research from Wharton's Sonny Tambe finds that LLMs can make biased hiring decisions that traditional auditing methods might not be able to catch. KEY TAKEAWAYS LLMs trained on vast swaths of online data can absorb and replicate human biases. The direction of these biases is not always predictable. Policymakers and organizations need context-specific audits to understand how these models actually perform in the real world.
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Oct 29, 20251 min read
Accountable Acceleration: Gen AI Fast-Tracks Into the Enterprise
As Gen AI fast-tracks into budgets, processes, and training, executives need benchmarks, not anecdotes. Now in its third year, this unique, year-over-year, cross-sectional study shows where the common use cases are, where returns are emerging, and which people- and process-levers could convert mainstream use into durable ROI. The full report
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Oct 29, 20251 min read
CEO Moments of Truth
CEOs face many strategic decisions. It’s often the trickiest ones that provide the greatest learning experiences.
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Oct 29, 20251 min read
AI companies are trying to build god. Shouldn’t they get our permission first?
The public did not consent to artificial general intelligence.
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Oct 29, 20251 min read
As some DEI critics say victory is near, companies face new pushback over rollbacks
After years of whiplash over diversity policies, businesses remain caught between conflicting regulatory requirements, frustrated consumers and their employees.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
Why your best ideas come after your worst
It’s no wonder great writers swear by messy first drafts. Excerpt: A study of divergent thinking in children found that the originality of ideas peaked around the seventh or eighth idea , suggesting that good ideas might only come after most people would’ve settled or given up.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
What Amazon’s 14,000 job cuts say about a new era of corporate downsizing
Executives have echoed Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s talking points, tying their job cuts to expected gains from AI and nimbler operations.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
Connecting the dots in an uncertain world
Business professor Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
The case for change: New world. New skills
Preparing the workforce of the future will require billions of dollars. But the cost of inaction will be even higher. Somewhat related
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
Problems with A.I. abstinence
A consumer movement against artificial intelligence is misaligned with the business model—and the threat.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
Are return-to-office mandates flawed?
Might companies demanding office returns be setting themselves up for failure?
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
The U.S. radiation dichotomy
Tighter regulations on cell phones, less on nuclear plants?
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China
Modern warfare is decided by production capacity and technological mastery, not by individual valor. Related More Related
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
The Economy That’s Great for Parents, Lousy for Their Grown-Up Kids
Many older Americans are financially comfortable, but they worry their adult children won’t achieve the same kind of economic stability
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Oct 27, 20251 min read
The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture
Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.
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Oct 27, 20251 min read
The Age of De-Skilling
Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
It’s PR, not the ER’: Gen Z is resisting the workplace emergency
As the workforce evolves, younger generations are rejecting a frenetic approach to work that can create undue stress and cross work-life balance boundaries
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
The consequences of U.S. moral drift
Consumerism and the addiction economy are undermining the republic. Related More
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
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