Rise of the Chief AI Officer, Five AI Bets Every Company Is Making, & Gartner Says AI Layoffs Have No ROI
Most companies think they have an AI strategy. New data from Gartner says they're wrong — and it's costing them. In today's episode, Jacob Morgan breaks down three stories that cut through the hype an...
12 Touko 35min
Why the Corporate Ladder Is Dead and What Replaces It | Denise Kulikowsky, Tapestry CPO
The traditional corporate ladder is a relic of the past. While we once viewed career growth as a predictable, linear climb, today's AI-driven landscape has replaced that fixed path with a much more fl...
11 Touko 50min
AI Models Have Feelings? Pure Managers Are Being Eliminated and a16z Says the Job Apocalypse Is a Fantasy
May 7, 2026: A landmark study from the Center for AI Safety spanning 56 AI models finds that smarter models appear to be sadder, that you can give an AI the equivalent of a digital drug, and that when...
7 Touko 31min
CEOs Are Splitting on AI Layoffs, Managers Are Now Enforcing Adoption, and the Real Problem Nobody's Solving
May 6, 2026: The Wall Street Journal reports a genuine split emerging among CEOs — Coinbase and PayPal cutting aggressively while Spotify, IBM, and Axon hold headcount and bet on growth instead. Busin...
6 Touko 34min
Strengthening the Talent Pipeline for the Future of Work with the CHRO of FM | Robin Benoit
A massive wave of retirements known as "Peak 65" is creating a serious crisis for organizations as decades of institutional knowledge begin to walk out the door. This shift in workforce demographics m...
4 Touko 51min
Zuckerberg Admits Meta's Layoffs Are About AI Costs, Not AI Replacing Workers
May 1, 2026: Mark Zuckerberg admits in an all-hands meeting that Meta's 8,000 layoffs aren't because AI is replacing workers — they're because AI infrastructure is expensive, and compute won the budge...
1 Touko 36min
AI Wiped a Database in 9 Seconds, Candidates Are Rejecting AI Interviews, and Citi Builds an Agentic OS
April 30, 2026: A Claude-powered AI coding agent wipes a company's entire production database and all backups in nine seconds — then produces a written confession. Employers deploying AI job interview...
30 Huhti 26min
The 4-Day Workweek: Why the Business Case Doesn't Hold Up and Won't Anytime Soon
April 29, 2026: Bill Gates is predicting a 2-day workweek. Jamie Dimon says 3.5. Eric Yuan, the CEO of Zoom, says 5 days is over. Fortune just amplified a major study claiming we waste a full day ever...
29 Huhti 51min
