Your Talent Strategy Has to Keep Up with Your AI Transformation | Harvard Business Review

Talent Management

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  The impact of AI on entry-level roles continues to gain much attention. In the last few weeks alone, I have written several posts addressing different angles of this topic. This has included data from Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report showing meaningful …

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AI Adoption Is Overloading Your Middle Managers | Harvard Business Review

Leadership & Culture

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  Much of the discussion around AI has focused on how efficiency gains will help employees create new forms of value. But does this hold true in all cases? A new HBR article explores who captures AI’s upside and who absorbs its …

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AI and the Future of Entry-Level Work: A Framework for Safeguarding and Reinventing Early Career Pathways | World Economic Forum

Talent Acquisition Workforce Planning

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  Entry-level roles have long served as a foundation for building the institutional knowledge, judgment, and tacit skills that underpin long-term organizational capability. But as AI reshapes how work is performed, early-career workers are feeling the effects directly. This new report indicates …

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2026 ICF Coaching Futures Report: Envisioning Coaching’s Next Horizon | International Coaching Federation

Talent Development

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  Last month, I had the pleasure of having Dr. Anna Tavis — Clinical Professor and Chair of the Human Capital Management Department at NYU and author of The Digital Coaching Revolution (2024) — join my private community, Talent Edge Circle, as …

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When Everyone Uses AI, Companies Risk Losing Critical Skills | BCG

Workforce Trends

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  Layoffs and job cuts have dominated much of the recent headlines about AI and its impact. The Challenger Job Cuts Report, a monthly tracker of U.S.-based corporate layoff announcements, reported that AI led cited reasons for job cuts for the third …

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AI at Work: Strategy Matters More Than Tools | BCG

Workforce Trends

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  BCG just released the findings from its fourth annual AI at Work report, based on responses from 11,749 workers across 14 markets. One headline: 74% of frontline white-collar workers now regularly use AI, up 23 percentage points in one year, with …

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Raising the AI Fluency Bar for Every Zapier Hire | Tracy St. Dic.

Talent Acquisition Talent Development

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  In last week’s issue of Talent Edge Weekly,  I shared an open-access resource of employer-validated skill profiles for 30 roles, ranging from Project Management Specialists to Data Scientists. It’s from The Burning Glass Institute and developed through the Skills-First Working Group, …

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Gen AI Could Fix Performance Reviews — or Make Them Even Worse | Harvard Business Review

Talent Management

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  AI continues to influence how organizations implement various talent practices, including performance management (PM). However, a new HBR article by Boston University professor Chris Dellarocas suggests many may be scaling the wrong application of AI in PM. While companies like Citi, …

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The AI Jobs Transition Framework: Mapping AI’s Near-Term Impact on Jobs | OpenAI Economic Research

Workforce Planning

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  As organizations assess AI’s impact on jobs and work, many rely on AI exposure rankings, or the percentage of job tasks AI has the technical capability to perform, as the primary lens for assessing job disruption risk. But this new 32-page …

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How Much Will AI Impact Tomorrow’s Workforce? New Data on the Future of Work with AI | MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

Workforce Trends

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  As we continue to gain guidance from research-based insights on AI’s impact, this synthesis from the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, based on research presented by MIT IDE Research Director Neil Thompson and colleagues at the April 2026 IDE Annual …

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