AI
The AI Nobody Approved Is Already in the Building
Employees adopted assistants on personal accounts long before any committee finished a review. Banning it moves the usage somewhere with no logging at all.
Workplace
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Leadership
Internal Mobility Turns Out to Be the Cheapest Recruiting Channel
Companies spend heavily to source candidates externally while making internal movement quietly difficult. The organizations fixing the second are finding they need less of the first.
Leadership
Companies Cut Middle Managers. Now They Are Quietly Rebuilding the Layer
After several years of celebrated flattening, organizations are rediscovering what middle management was for, and rebuilding it under new names.
Leadership
The Chief of Staff Stops Being a Favor and Becomes a Role
An improvised job created for trusted individuals is acquiring job descriptions, levels and career paths. What it is becoming depends heavily on what problem it was created to solve.
Opinion
Companies Track Time and Waste Attention, Which Is the Only Scarce One
Organizations meter hours with industrial precision while treating focus, the input that actually produces the work, as free and infinite. The ledger is exactly backwards.
Opinion
Your Company Does Not Have a Data Problem. It Has a Definition Problem.
Organizations keep buying infrastructure to answer questions they have never agreed on the wording of. The disagreement is not technical, which is why the technical spending does not resolve it.
Leadership
Pay Transparency Changes What Managers Are Allowed to Say
Disclosure laws were written to affect job postings. Their most significant effect has been inside the building, on conversations managers were never trained to have.