People Managing People

The Human-AI Handoff Is More Complicated Than Companies Think

Most enterprise AI strategies start with the same question: What can we automate? It's a reasonable question if your ambition is to make the existing workplace run f

How Do You Prove AI ROI When The Return Is Only 1%?

Most companies are still figuring out what an AI agent should actually do. JLL has moved well past that question. With agents operating across facilities management, bran

Is AI Making Your Employees Worse At Thinking?

Recorded live at the AI4 conference in Las Vegas, this conversation puts David Rice and Dr. Lilian Ajayi Ore—AI lead faculty and lecturer in strategic communication at Co

Are Leaders Trading Future Capability For Short-Term AI Efficiency?

AI may be changing the work, but the bigger risk is what happens when organizations optimize so aggressively for today’s efficiency that they stop building tomorrow’s cap

How Do You Automate Recognition Without Making It Feel Automated?

AI in HR has a credibility problem: the technology is getting better at spotting patterns, summarizing data, and automating work, but none of that guarantees a better emp

What Happens When Employees Stop Speaking Up

When people stay quiet at work, organizations lose more than participation. They lose ideas, warnings, customer insight, process improvements, and market intelligence tha

Why AI Transformation Starts With Organizational Clarity

AI transformation has a funny way of becoming an organizational X-ray. The companies getting real value from it aren’t necessarily the ones buying the most tools or burni

How to Turn Employee Engagement Into a Business Case

HR has been told for years to “speak the language of the business,” usually as code for proving it deserves to be in the room. But Dr. Shindale Seale makes a stronger cas

HR Has the Skills to Lead the AI Era—But Will It?

There are two ways the AI transformation of work can go. We can hand the keys to the efficiency obsessives and spend the next decade trying to engineer the humanity out o

What AI Surveillance Can’t Tell You About Your Employees

Nobody sets out to build a workforce surveillance system. It usually arrives dressed up as optimization, productivity, wellness, or efficiency. But as AI makes it possibl

Why The EU Pay Transparency Directive Is More Than A Compliance Exercise

The EU Pay Transparency Directive isn’t just another reporting requirement. As pay reporting expert Tom Heys puts it, it’s closer to the UK gender pay gap regime “on ster

Why AI Isn’t Delivering The Productivity Gains We Expected

AI spending continues to hit record highs, yet most organizations are still struggling to translate that investment into better work. In this conversation, David Rice sit

The New Leadership Test: What Makes Someone AI-Native?

AI is quickly becoming the new test of executive credibility—but there's a growing gap between leaders who use AI and leaders who've fundamentally rebuilt how t

Why Traditional AI Risk Frameworks Are Breaking Down

AI adoption isn't slowing down—and neither are the risks. The challenge isn't that organizations don't know AI can create problems. It's that employee

The Team Habit That Separates High Performers From Everyone Else

AI isn't creating high-performing teams—it’s exposing the difference between teams that already know how to work well together and those that don’t. In this episode,

Why AI Usage Reports Don’t Mean Much

AI transformation doesn't fail because the technology isn't good enough. It fails because organizations try to layer it on top of cultures that were already str

Your Best Candidate Might Have The Worst Resume

Resumes still matter—but not for the reasons we think. In a world where AI can polish anyone’s experience into a compelling narrative, the traditional hiring signals many

AI Is Forcing Everyone To Become Their Own Economy

AI isn’t arriving as a gradual workplace evolution—it’s arriving as a societal shift that many leaders are still struggling to describe honestly. In this conversation, Da

Why Making Employees Work The Same Way Backfires

David Kolbe argues that most organizations are only measuring two-thirds of what drives performance. We assess what people know (skills) and how they tend to behave (pers

AI Is Rewarding The Loudest Employees

Most reward systems were built for a world where speed, volume, and visible output were reliable signals of performance. But AI now produces all three at scale. That leav