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This issue of Talent Edge Weekly covers:
- Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts About the Recent Employment Effects of AI (August 2026 Update) | Stanford Digital Economy Lab | Updated research shares six findings on employment shifts since ChatGPT’s release. I expand on one related to early-career workers and include a recent Stanford webinar that goes deeper into the research.
- Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Managers and The Allocation of Workers to Jobs | Quarterly Journal of Economics | A recent study of 200,000+ workers explores how manager behaviors that support internal talent mobility can lead to various positive outcomes, including an increased number of lateral moves.
- Freeing Up Workforce Capacity From the Team You Already Have | Brian Heger | My one-pager shares 9 ways organizational ways of working can quietly diminish workforce capacity, with warning signs to watch for and one practical next step to address each one.
- Before Rolling Out a New Strategy, Assess Your Team’s Readiness | Harvard Business Review | A new article offers a framework for increasing organizational readiness before launching a new strategy, including three conditions leaders should assess and tactics for strengthening each one.
- Book Feature: The Changing Leadership Landscape: New Challenges, New Expectations, New Actions | SIOP Professional Practice Series | I highlight this new book, edited by Sheri Feinzig, Ph.D., and Mariangela Battista, Ph.D., which brings together nearly 50 contributors to examine how leadership is changing, along with strategies and tactics for leading effectively in a new era.
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