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Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Workplace news you didn’t know you needed.
HBR
Harvard Business Review yesterday

Great Leaders Know Which Emotions Their Feedback Will Trigger

HBR research shows skilled leaders anticipate the emotional impact of feedback before they deliver it.

FT
Financial Times yesterday

Employers pushed staff to use AI more. That has backfired

Pushing employees to adopt AI without support is backfiring, damaging morale and productivity.

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Fortune 1h ago

Gallup CEO says colonizing Mars may be closer than fixing today’s ‘broken’ workplace—where disengagement levels are as high as 2020

Gallup CEO warns employee disengagement has returned to pandemic-era lows despite years of investment.

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Inc. 1h ago

Most Leaders Track Employee Turnover. Few Know What It’s Actually Costing Them

Most leaders underestimate true turnover costs by tracking headcount rather than organizational impact.

FC
Fast Company 11h ago

This habit leads to burnout. Are you at risk?

A common workplace habit is quietly accelerating burnout risk across leadership teams.

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Fortune yesterday

Chipotle’s COO takes employees to dinner every week to spot his next leaders—here are the 4 traits he’s seeking

Chipotle's COO uses weekly team dinners to identify leadership potential through four observable traits.

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Inc. yesterday

The ‘Job-Hugging’ Trend Is Cracking: Why Half of Employees Are Now Looking to Leave

New data shows half of employees are now actively job searching, reversing the post-pandemic stay-put trend.

FC
Fast Company yesterday

Four lessons in handling uncertainty from an ER doc turned CEO

An ER physician turned CEO shares four tested frameworks for leading teams through high-stakes uncertainty.

WSJ
The Wall Street Journal 6d ago

Air Canada Picks Outsider as Next CEO to Rebuild Trust After Video Fallout

Air Canada's choice of an outside CEO after a trust crisis signals how boards use leadership hires to signal accountability.

SR
MIT Sloan Mgmt Review 7d ago

Leadership’s Blind Spot in the Age of AI

MIT Sloan identifies what senior leaders are systematically missing about AI's organizational implications.

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McKinsey 7d ago

The operating model advantage: Why AI winners are rewiring their organizations

McKinsey finds AI winners are rewiring operating models, not just deploying tools — a strategic framing shift for executives.

WSJ
The Wall Street Journal 3d ago

The Mind-Bending Company That Gets a Million Job Applications—and Rejects 99.9%

A company receiving one million applications while accepting 0.1 percent reveals new dynamics in elite talent filtering.

HR
theHRDIRECTOR 5d ago

Flexible working hasn’t disappeared, it’s matured

New data shows flexible work norms have stabilized into a mature model rather than retreating or expanding further.

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Ask a Manager 7d ago

how do I answer an interview question about experience I don’t have

Practical guidance on how to answer interview questions about experience you genuinely do not have.

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McKinsey 19d ago

What it takes to become—and remain—an effective CEO

McKinsey research identifies what separates executives who become effective CEOs and stay that way.

HBR
Harvard Business Review 18d ago

AI Adoption Is Overloading Your Middle Managers

HBR finds AI rollouts are quietly burning out middle managers, the layer executives rely on most to drive change.

HR
theHRDIRECTOR 35d ago

Employees are staying silent about the issues HR most needs to hear

Employees are withholding critical feedback from HR, leaving leaders blind to their most pressing problems.

SR
MIT Sloan Mgmt Review 28d ago

AI Upskilling at Scale: Bank of America’s Bernard Hampton

Bank of America's head of HR details how large-scale AI upskilling is being executed in practice.

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Ask a Manager 32d ago

I need to give my employees more positive feedback

A manager's candid struggle with giving positive feedback surfaces a common leadership gap worth examining.

FT
Financial Times 30d ago

‘Can a machine do this job?’ is the wrong question

Reframing AI job displacement away from task replacement opens more useful strategic conversations for leaders.