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HR leaders face a new challenge: preparing the workforce for an AI-powered future. UNLEASH spoke with IBM’s VP of HR Technology, Data & AI, Jon Lester, on how transparency, upskilling, and strategic use of AI agents can empower rather than threaten employees.

For decades, productivity has been treated as a visible sport. Meetings, emails, calendars packed to the brim. These have become the outward symbols of commitment and performance. Yet as burnout accelerates and engagement erodes, leaders are being forced to confront an uncomfortable question: What if we’ve been measuring the wrong things all along?

AI can now generate entire worlds from text prompts. What does this mean for how we think, create, and connect?

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A new study from Wharton’s Gideon Nave and colleagues suggests that testosterone may play a smaller role in economic behavior than previously believed.

The road to meaningful AI adoption should be paved with employee incentives. Wharton’s Scott Snyder draws a map to show business leaders how they can get there.

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In their new book, leading experts Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter bring academic rigor to organizational responses to employee overload.

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DM I've left too much unsaid, or perhaps unresolved, in our prior conversations regarding "Fitness Beats Truth" (F>T) theory/paradigm (Hoffman, et al) in comparison with my "Fitness Equals Truth™" (F=T™) hypothesis. Let me begin to expand with these precipitative thoughts: 1) Both should be considered upon the human version of The Universal Holophren™ 2) F>T reflects historic-to-present, evolutionary application of the intelligences so as to optimally assure sustainable exist

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