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8 surprising things boomers say about retirement that no one tells you in your 40s
Ask a boomer about retirement, and you’ll hear the things no financial planner ever mentions. Here are 8 insights they wish younger generations knew.
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Nov 21 min read
Americans’ Long Love/Hate Relationship With Work
From the Protestant work ethic to ‘rage quitting,’ American attitudes about their work are driven by its promise of prosperity—and its precarious nature
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Nov 21 min read
The Triadic Work Relationship™ (UII w/Claude)
DM With hot apple cider in hand I ask, what are optimal terms to define a functional "A.I.<>human<> organization relationship" (both personal and collectively) within organizational work dynamics; and what might the designs thereof include, or entail, for optimal relational efficacy and risks mitigation? Keep in mind: organizations and human have very different parameters as to "optimal"and "efficacy;" and IMPO from a moral and pragmatic POV, "work should fit well into life,"
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Nov 224 min read
Why Companies Are No Longer Hanging On to Employees
The practice of ‘labor hoarding’—holding on to employees for fear of not being able to get them back later—has reached its end
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Nov 21 min read
Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads
Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization
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Nov 21 min read
The nation’s largest employers are putting their workers on notice
Amazon is cutting jobs in an efficiency drive and Walmart says its headcount will stay flat as artificial intelligence disrupts some roles.
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Nov 11 min read
The most powerful A.I. (...or human?) skill: embracing "I don't know."
True AI literacy isn’t about mastering the latest tools—it’s about creating space to ask questions, admit gaps, and learn without shame.
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Nov 11 min read
Transforming R&D with AI: Breaking barriers and boosting productivity
AI holds the power to accelerate innovation in R&D, but realizing its potential will demand that organizations rethink how they work and overcome the barriers to adoption.
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Oct 301 min read
Geoffrey Hinton on Artificial Intelligence
Yascha Mounk and Geoffrey Hinton discuss how AI works—and why it’s a risk.
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Oct 301 min read
The three forces redefining how the world works
I was reminded of these new forces during a visit to Silicon Valley last week where major tech CEOs said the same thing: “Long term is now six months.”
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Oct 301 min read
5 organizational transformation killer
70% to 80% of organizational transformations fail, often due to poor leadership. Here’s what to avoid.
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Oct 301 min read
You can’t benchmark culture
Your company’s ideal behavioral strengths are unique, and shouldn’t be borrowed or copied — not even from a high-performance enterprise.
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Oct 301 min read
The power of feelings at work
By aligning the pursuit of business objectives with the meeting of human needs, companies can tap into powerful emotional forces in their current cultural situations.
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Oct 301 min read
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 291 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 291 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 291 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 281 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 281 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 281 min read
Empathy: The glue we need to fix a fractured world
Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki explains that whether we are dealing with business, politics, or personal matters, it’s possible — and advantageous — to train ourselves to be more empathic.
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Oct 281 min read
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