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forbes.com just now

Why Employees Cannot Disconnect From Work During PTO

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Inc. 18h ago

AI Won’t Boost Productivity Until Leaders Fix Their Trust Problem

AI productivity gains stall when employee trust in leadership is low, making trust a prerequisite for AI ROI.

HBR
Harvard Business Review 20h ago

AI Adoption Is Overloading Your Middle Managers

AI rollout is burning out middle managers who absorb implementation pressure without adequate support or authority.

SR
MIT Sloan Mgmt Review yesterday

Redefine What ‘Professionalism’ Means

MIT Sloan argues outdated professionalism standards are quietly eroding inclusion and talent retention.

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Fortune yesterday

A 6 year study shows which CEOs are pushing RTO mandates: The ones with the biggest egos

Six-year study links CEO ego to RTO mandates, creating reputation and retention risks for leaders.

WSJ
The Wall Street Journal yesterday

M.B.A. Pay Is Drifting Down—and So Is Demand for the Degree

MBA pay and enrollment are both declining, signaling a shift in how executives credential themselves.

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McKinsey 2d 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.

FC
Fast Company 3d ago

This is the feedback mistake that experienced leaders keep making

Experienced leaders repeatedly make one specific feedback error that undermines trust and behavior change.

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Inc. 5d ago

Every Leader Says They Want Honesty. Few Realize They Punish It.

Leaders who claim to value honesty often unconsciously punish it, undermining trust and candor.

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Fortune 2d ago

Fortune 500 bosses demanding staff return to the office share one trait: narcissism, research finds

New research directly links Fortune 500 RTO mandates to narcissistic leader traits, not productivity data.

HBR
Harvard Business Review 2d ago

How Leaders Create the Conditions for Innovative Thinking

HBR identifies specific conditions leaders must create for innovative thinking to consistently emerge.

WSJ
The Wall Street Journal 4d ago

We Investigated Polymarket’s Deceptive Marketing Campaign. Here’s What We Found.

Polymarket's deceptive marketing investigation is a live case study in how misleading communications collapse trust.

SR
MIT Sloan Mgmt Review 10d 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.

FC
Fast Company 10d ago

Why your smartest people stop taking risks at work (& how to reverse it)

Smart employees stop taking risks when leaders unknowingly punish initiative — here is how to reverse it.

HR
theHRDIRECTOR 18d 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.

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McKinsey 12d ago

Collective action, collective success: A CEO’s role in transformations

McKinsey research identifies CEO behaviors that make or break major organizational transformations.

HR
theHRDIRECTOR 15d ago

AI is “quietly eroding trust”in the workplace

AI adoption in the workplace is quietly eroding employee trust, creating a hidden leadership credibility risk.

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Ask a Manager 15d 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.

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Ask a Manager 19d ago

my team isn’t happy I was promoted to manager, boss edits my work with ChatGPT (badly), and more

New manager facing team resentment and a boss using ChatGPT to edit work poorly surfaces two common leadership credibility threats.

FT
Financial Times 12d 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.