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This issue of Talent Edge Weekly covers:
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Two Futures for Jobs in an AI Era: 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer | PwC | A new report with a section on how AI is reshaping certain entry-level roles to require more senior-level skills, with implications for early-career strategy.
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The AI Value Levers: How Innovation-Focused Strategies Outperform — for Firms and Workers | Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs | A new report identifies seven levers companies use to create value with AI. I share a one-pager to map your own AI use cases against the framework.
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When High-Impact Development Roles May Signal a Need for Talent Movement | Brian Heger | My slides to help evaluate if key development roles are used effectively to support talent growth and leadership pipeline flow.
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Performance Management Needs New Metrics in the AI Era | Harvard Business Review | A new article explores how traditional performance metrics need to evolve in the context of AI-enabled performance. Proposes a three-layer framework.
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Designing for the Cognitive Cost of Change: Protecting the Capacity Teams Need for Their Best Thinking | McKinsey | A new article that views cognitive capacity as an organizational resource to manage strategically, outlining three research-backed practices to support it
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