The Josh Bersin Company

The Politics, Economics, Technology, and Market of AI: Lessons from 1873

Today I summarize my keynote from Unleash Paris this week, where I draw a line between generative AI’s birth in November of 2022 and the Railroad Era of 1873. Not only ar

Introducing Superpowered, How AI Unlocks The Power Of You

This week we launch our new book “Superpowered, how AI Unlocks The Power of People, Leadership and Teams. Based on more than 100 case studies and years of research on org

What Is Task Intelligence And Can We Decompose Every Job For AI?

There’s a big flurry of interest in Job-Task Analysis (an old discipline) to break down jobs into tasks, categorize and inventory these tasks, and then “Voila,” you can b

HCM is Back! Why AI Means The HCM Market Is Poised for Growth.

Today, after in-depth meetings with Workday, SAP, UKG, Dayforce, Hibob, Gloat, and others, I’m ready to say “the SaaSPocalypse is over.” HCM is poised for massive growth

Workday: Agent Strategy, Sana as Core, Usage-based Pricing, and Our Partnership

Workday Rising Announcements: Sana as core interface, 17 major new Superagents including “autopilots” (that we call “monitoring agents”), Sana Concierge for self-service,

Introducing Business 2030: How AI Can Transform Our Companies

Now that corporate AI tools from Workday, SAP, Oracle, Databricks, ServiceNow and many others have hit the market, it’s time to think about how we apply AI strategically.

Safely Managing Networks of AI Agents and SAP Autonomous Enterprise

This week SAP explained its new Joule Work and Autonomous Enterprise strategy at its SAP Connect conference. As you’ll hear, SAP is building a solid set of AI agents to c

The Philosophical Debate About Superintelligence

There’s a raging debate going on about something called Superintelligence: the idea of a massive AI network that knows everything and does everything for us each day. Bi

How HR 2030's Architecture Works & Amazing World of Personal AI Agents

I’m really excited about the potential for Personal AI Agents. While GrokBot and Muse and Microsoft Autopilot (Scout) are very young (and not at all mature yet), we can n

TechWolf CEO Andreas DeNeve Wants to Infer Skills With Precision

Andreas DeNeve, founder of TechWolf, believes AI can “infer” your skills with great precision. After years studying this problem TechWolf has built a variety of AI langua

How News Corp Thrives In A World of AI: Ruth Allen, Global CHRO

News Corp, with more than $9 billion in revenue, is one of the most important and iconic media and digital real estate companies in the world. The company owns mastheads

AI Safety Is an Engineering Problem, Not A Research Program & Introducing Business 2030

Perspectives on AI safety and alignment, and what you as a business leader need to know.  I’m attaching a good set of resources for you to read, this is a fascinating iss

Introducing The Jupiter Release of Galileo: An Inside Story

Today we launch the Jupiter release of Galileo, which we call “HR Intelligence for the Enterprise.” In this podcast I explain the history of Galileo, its evolving and ne

Perspectives on AI Safety, Rogue Bots, and the Frontier Lab Slowdown

We are all living in a world of “beta products” from AI vendors, and whether we like it or not we’re stuck with the risks. Today I weigh in with my perspectives about wha

The AI-Fueled Labor Shortage and Why HR Is Now A Growth Function

Guess what. There is no AI jobs apocalypse, there’s an AI-fueled labor shortage. And this means human capital and leadership strategies will be more important than ever a

AI Pacesetter: Seneca Polytechnic Transforms HR As Frontier Firm

What do you do when the funding that anchored your HR transformation disappears unexpectedly? For Seneca Polytechnic, a public college with 44,000 students in the greater

Labor Day 2035: Why Workers Will Become More Valuable Than Ever

The BLS forecasts an almost flat growth in the labor market in the next decade yet US GDP is expected to grow by 22-24% cumulatively. In order for this to work we are all

Inside Databricks: The Dynamic Learning Operation That Fuels Hypergrowth

Rochana Golani, VP of Enablement at Databricks, is one of the most innovative and business-focused learning executives I’ve met. In this action-packed conversation Rochan

Workday Earnings Call: Company Is Moving Swiftly To An AI Future

Workday’s Q2 2027 earnings were a pivot point, showing how Workday has shifted to its “AI-Forward Future.” The company reported $600 Million of recurring AI revenue and a

Security Of Enterprise Agents, Frontier Labs Challenged, Superworker Wages

Today I review the various jailbreaks by both OpenAI and Anthropic and the challenges which Frontier Labs are having with AI “alignment.” So in keeping with HR 2030, I sh