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This issue of Talent Edge Weekly covers: The impact of AI on non-knowledge workers, GenAI playbook for organizations, agentic AI, performance review calibration discussions, and talent reviews.
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Jobs of Tomorrow: Technology and the Future of the World’s Largest Workforces | World Economic Forum | A new 17-page white paper that explores how AI and other emerging technologies will reshape 80% of the global workforce—far beyond knowledge-worker jobs.
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The Gen AI Playbook for Organizations | Harvard Business Review | A new article offers a framework for deciding which tasks are best automated, handled with AI–human collaboration, or kept human-led—and how to turn those choices into real ROI.
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The Agentic Organization: Contours of The Next Paradigm for The AI Era | McKinsey | Presents the case for how the true AI advantage comes from redesigning the enterprise into an “agentic organization,” where humans and AI agents work together—reshaping roles, skills, and core talent practices.
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Performance Calibration Discussions: 10 Questions to Help Managers Reflect on Employees’ Year-End Performance | Brian Heger | My cheat with questions to help managers prepare for performance calibration discussions and drive more objective, consistent evaluations.
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Talent Reviews: Key Questions, HiPo Metrics, and Regrettable Loss Segments | Brian Heger | My cheat sheet consolidates three elements from my past posts on talent reviews: key discussion questions, talent segments to retain, and sample HiPo metrics.
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