Insights on Work, Talent, Learning, Leadership, and HR Technology
Today we introduce the Jupiter release of Galileo®, the world’s AI intelligence for HR. For the firsts time companies can embed Galileo’s massive intelligence into any AI agent, unleashing its insights, data, and problem solving to every employee in your company.
This release represents two years of engineering, so I’ll walk through the new ... Read more»
Despite the talk about job losses from AI, we now know the opposite is true. The new Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections: 2025-2035. shows that we are likely to have labor shortages in the future, despite growth in AI productivity ahead.
The bottom line is this: the US labor market will only grow ... Read more»
I have spent almost 30 years studying organizations, work, jobs, and HR, and every year there’s a new theme. There was digital transformation, employee wellbeing, hybrid work, diversity and inclusion, women’s rights, and now AI. What’s the real direction here?
One might argue that employment and jobs are becoming “more human,” but that’s not true.... Read more»
I’ve been an HR analyst and consultant for 30 years and there’s always a story that HR is “useless” or “a waste of time” or “going away.” And this will always continue, because most managers really do believe they are already experts at this domain.
And at this month’s SHRM conference, according to Bloomberg, ... Read more»
Wages play a huge role in frontline work. The 70%+ of employees who work in these roles often jump from job to job, employer to employer, just to make a few more dollars per hour.
Here’s the dynamic: a typical restaurant, retail, service, or transportation job requires no deep pre-requisite skill (Type 1 and Type ... Read more»
Now that AI is part of our daily life, we see its impact on management. In this article I’d like to explain this important topic, and introduce you to our new research, “The Rise of the Supermanager.”
A Brief History of Management
If you read Peter Drucker and look at decades of research, ... Read more»
Today we launch the Jupiter release of Galileo, which we call “HR Intelligence for the Enterprise.”
In this podcast I explain the history of Galileo, its evolving and new technical architecture, and how AI agents can revolutionize every aspect of an employee’s work life. As you’ll hear, Galileo is now the most trusted, efficient, ... Read more»
We are all living in a world of “beta products” from AI vendors, and whether we like it or not we’re stuck with the risks. Today I weigh in with my perspectives about what’s going on and how we, as consumers and builders, need to push back on Frontier Labs and force them to “fix” ... Read more»
Guess what. There is no AI jobs apocalypse, there’s an AI-fueled labor shortage. And this means human capital and leadership strategies will be more important than ever as we transform our companies around AI.
It also means that you, as a professsional or frontline worker, are going to see yourself become Superpowered, as we ... Read more»
What do you do when the funding that anchored your HR transformation disappears unexpectedly? For Seneca Polytechnic, a public college with 44,000 students in the greater Toronto area, the answer was redesigning the transformation itself.
In this episode, we speak with Diana Mohan, Executive Director of Transformation and Change at Seneca Polytechnic — ... Read more»
The BLS forecasts an almost flat growth in the labor market in the next decade yet US GDP is expected to grow by 22-24% cumulatively. In order for this to work we are all going to be focused on “labor productivity.”
In this podcast I explain this new world of Superworkers and discuss why the ... Read more»
Rochana Golani, VP of Enablement at Databricks, is one of the most innovative and business-focused learning executives I’ve met. In this action-packed conversation Rochana shares the secrets of the company’s AI-powered dynamic training, learning, and enablement system, and how she runs internal and customer learning like a fast-growing business.
Databricks is one of the ... Read more»
Workday’s Q2 2027 earnings were a pivot point, showing how Workday has shifted to its “AI-Forward Future.” The company reported $600 Million of recurring AI revenue and a clear and confident position in the market.
While Workday’s 12.8% YTY revenue growth is nowhere near that of a Frontier Lab, my takeaway is that Workday is ... Read more»
Today I review the various jailbreaks by both OpenAI and Anthropic and the challenges which Frontier Labs are having with AI “alignment.” So in keeping with HR 2030, I share some general advice and stay tuned for our detailed technical paper on this in the coming weeks.
And as we debate the reliability, training, ... Read more»
Today I share some research we’re doing on wages in the inflationary “AI-economy.” While many people are studying the labor market (it’s a huge industry), it’s not hard to see that most wages are not keeping up with inflation, yet some are. As you’ll hear we now see the “Superworker” jobs and roles that are ... Read more»
This week I wade into a global philosophical debate about whether advanced AI systems have consciousness. In other words, are they aware of their feelings and do they truly reflect on their own thoughts?
Well we do know that LLM-based AI systems do “talk to themselves,” as new Anthropic has been studying in the J-Space... Read more»
I’ve been talking with hundreds of companies about AI and employee issues, and in many ways the entire world of HR, management, and leadership has changed.
Employers are worried about job redesign, AI solutions, skills, and strategic of high-volume hiring. They’re slowing the hiring process, trying to be more strategic about growth, with a frenzied ... Read more»
AI-powered recruiting has so much potential, yet job seekers, recruiters, and executives remain frustrated. This massive $100+ billion market is filled with AI systems that work very well, yet as you’ll hear, this market is still immature.
Not only are job seekers increasingly frustrated with their difficulty finding a job, employers are complaining that they’re ... Read more»
Today I discuss Workday and the potential Silver Lake buyout, Meta’s personal AI strategy and it’s potential for business, update on Galileo, and our new research on frontline work. Most of today’s podcast is “analyst perspectives” but lots of direction is now clear.
The GHRE Global HR Excellence masterclass starts in September: if you want ... Read more»
The job market is changing in unpredictable ways. Human Resources, a profession often considered optional and filled with bureaucracy, has been a target for AI disruption. Yet when you look at the numbers, HR job postings are growing faster than overall US employment. (details here.)
What’s happening and why this strange trend?
As ... Read more»
As AI experts leave Google and new startups emerge, engineers are consumed with Superintelligence: building models that can reason, learn, and capture “all the world’s knowledge.” While model evolution is important, I believe we’re going in a different direction: toward vertical, domain and company specific AI that exponentially builds proprietary (not general) knowledge.
In this ... Read more»
