Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
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Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
The future of work isn't coming. It's already here — and it's moving fast. Future Ready is the podcast for leaders who want to stay ahead of AI, workplace transformation, and the forces reshaping how organizations operate and compete. Hosted by Jacob Morgan, futurist and bestselling author, this is...
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The Doom Industry: How Fear About AI Jobs Became a Business Model
May 22, 2026: The AI job apocalypse story has become one of the most-shared narratives of the decade. It is also one of the most misleading. In this e...
Two Hours That Changed AI, $1 Billion Enterprise Deployment Wave, and California's Worker Protection Order
May 21, 2026: Today might be the most consequential single day for the future of work in all of 2026. In a two-hour window yesterday afternoon, OpenAI...
Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs, Top AI Researcher Leaves OpenAI for Anthropic, and 80% of Americans Are on Their Own With AI
May 20, 2026: Meta began notifying 8,000 employees of their layoffs this morning — while simultaneously redirecting $145 billion into AI infrastructur...
The Companies Doubling Down on Junior Hiring, Why AI Is Eroding Gen Z's Brain, and Gartner's Shocking Jobs Forecast for 2028
May 19, 2026: Everyone has an opinion about AI and jobs. Today we have actual data — three major studies published this week that, taken together, tel...
Out-learning the Competition by Building a Skills-Based Talent Ecosystem | Susan LaMonica, CHRO of Citizens Financial Group
If your organization isn't obsessed with how fast your people can learn, you're already falling behind in the race to "out-learn" the competition. In...
The Manager Purge, the Agent Sprawl Crisis, and America's 1,200 AI Laws With No Rulebook
May 15, 2026: The Guardian documents the tech industry's accelerating purge of middle managers — and history says companies have tried this exact bet...
Kevin O'Leary Got It Wrong, Meta's Trust Crisis, and the Talent Problem Nobody Wants to Fix
May 14, 2026: Tucker Carlson and Kevin O'Leary debated AI, energy, and jobs yesterday — and O'Leary had the right argument but made the wrong one. Tod...
Goldman's Robot Workforce, Amazon's Fake AI Scores, and Princeton's 133-Year Trust Collapse
May 13, 2026: Goldman Sachs President and COO John Waldron went on CNBC and publicly described his entire workforce as a "human assembly line," announ...
Rise of the Chief AI Officer, Five AI Bets Every Company Is Making, & Gartner Says AI Layoffs Have No ROI
Most companies think they have an AI strategy. New data from Gartner says they're wrong — and it's costing them. In today's episode, Jacob Morgan brea...
Why the Corporate Ladder Is Dead and What Replaces It | Denise Kulikowsky, Tapestry CPO
The traditional corporate ladder is a relic of the past. While we once viewed career growth as a predictable, linear climb, today's AI-driven landscap...
AI Models Have Feelings? Pure Managers Are Being Eliminated and a16z Says the Job Apocalypse Is a Fantasy
May 7, 2026: A landmark study from the Center for AI Safety spanning 56 AI models finds that smarter models appear to be sadder, that you can give an...
CEOs Are Splitting on AI Layoffs, Managers Are Now Enforcing Adoption, and the Real Problem Nobody's Solving
May 6, 2026: The Wall Street Journal reports a genuine split emerging among CEOs — Coinbase and PayPal cutting aggressively while Spotify, IBM, and Ax...
Strengthening the Talent Pipeline for the Future of Work with the CHRO of FM | Robin Benoit
A massive wave of retirements known as "Peak 65" is creating a serious crisis for organizations as decades of institutional knowledge begin to walk ou...
Zuckerberg Admits Meta's Layoffs Are About AI Costs, Not AI Replacing Workers
May 1, 2026: Mark Zuckerberg admits in an all-hands meeting that Meta's 8,000 layoffs aren't because AI is replacing workers — they're because AI infr...
AI Wiped a Database in 9 Seconds, Candidates Are Rejecting AI Interviews, and Citi Builds an Agentic OS
April 30, 2026: A Claude-powered AI coding agent wipes a company's entire production database and all backups in nine seconds — then produces a writte...
The 4-Day Workweek: Why the Business Case Doesn't Hold Up and Won't Anytime Soon
April 29, 2026: Bill Gates is predicting a 2-day workweek. Jamie Dimon says 3.5. Eric Yuan, the CEO of Zoom, says 5 days is over. Fortune just amplifi...
Amazon Killed the Job Interview, OpenAI Is Missing Its Targets, and AI Still Costs More Than Your Employees
April 28, 2026: The AI productivity promise is running into reality — and today's numbers don't lie. Amazon just launched an AI system that conducts j...
Why Most Companies Collapse Under Change | Susan Davies, CHRO of Markel
It feels like we are on a fast treadmill because technology and AI are changing work so quickly. It is hard to stay ahead when old ways of doing thing...
College Hiring is Back, Meta & Microsoft Cut Headcount, & Tokenmaxxing is the New Trend
April 24, 2026:
The Wall Street Journal reports entry-level hiring is rebounding — but IBM's HR chief says AI can already do almost everything...
GPT-5.5 is Live, Law Firm Uses AI That Hallucinates, & Communities Revolt Against Data Centers
April 23, 2026: OpenAI released GPT-5.5 today — its second major model in six weeks. But while the software accelerates, the physical infrastructure p...
Empathetic Excellence: Why Competence, Merit, and Empathy Are the Only Formula For Keeping Your Best People
April 22, 2026: What does it actually take to build an organization where people perform at their best? In this episode, I'm breaking down what I call...
BlackRock Rebuilds Work Around AI Squads, Meta Tracks Employee Keystrokes, Amazon Bets $33B on Anthropic
April 21, 2026: Amazon commits $33 billion total to Anthropic in a landmark deal securing 5 gigawatts of compute — the equivalent of five nuclear powe...
How To Build A Massive AI Literate Workforce & Prepare For The Future of Work - Lisa Coulson, CHRO, Principal Financial Group
Technology is moving faster than ever, and many of us feel the pressure to keep up without losing our human touch. We need a clear path to help our te...
The Era of Employee Leverage Is Over And That Might Be a Good Thing
April 17, 2026: Employer power has officially returned and workers are accepting things they never would have a year ago — but is that actually a bad...
80 Percent of Workers Are Ignoring Your AI Tools and Claude Opus 4.7 Is Out
April 16, 2026: Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7 this morning — a significant upgrade focused on complex coding and self-verification that changes w...
A Shoe Company Just Became an AI Firm And OpenAI's Cybersecurity Move Should Wake Up Every Leader
April 15, 2027: A failed sneaker brand rebrands as an AI compute company and its stock jumps 600% in a day — and that tells us something important abo...
Mark Zuckerberg Is Building a Digital Clone of Himself for His Employees
April 14, 2026: The Stanford AI Index shows generative AI has hit 53% global adoption — faster than any technology in history — but also reveals a 50-...
Maintaining "Humanness" in a Technology & AI Driven Workplace - w/ Ally Financial CHRO Kathie Patterson
Companies today are rushing to build an AI strategy, but they often forget to create a human strategy to match it. As technology takes over daily task...
80% of People Trust AI Even When It's Wrong And It's Making Them Feel Smarter
April 10, 2026: Andreessen Horowitz just released hard data showing nearly a third of the Fortune 500 has live AI deployments — and the pattern undern...
Meta Launched a New AI Model and Employees Are Being Ranked by How Much AI They Use
April 9, 2026: Meta had a big week. The company launched Muse Spark, its first model from a completely rebuilt AI team, framing it as the opening move...
Employees Sabotage AI, Claude Cyber Warfare, and Google's Lie Machine
April 8, 2026: A major new survey finds that 44% of Gen Z workers admit to actively sabotaging their company's AI rollout — and the real story isn't w...
Altman Wants a New Deal, Goldman Conflicting Jobs Reports, and Why "No AI" Is Becoming a Selling Point
April 7, 2026: Sam Altman published a 13-page blueprint this week arguing capitalism won't survive superintelligence — and proposing robot taxes, a pu...
How Newell Brands Is Operationalizing a High-Performance Culture in the Middle of AI Disruption (CHRO Tracy Platt)
Preparing a global team for a world that changes by the minute can feel like a race against time, especially when 80% of jobs face major shifts by 203...
Stanford Just Proved 87% of All Economic Growth Came From Replacing Humans — And AI Is About to Do It Again, Just Slower Than You Think
April 3, 2026: Two major academic papers dropped today alongside fresh labor market data, and together they paint the clearest picture yet of what AI...
Your Company Was Already Too Big. AI Didn't Create the Problem, It Just Ended the Lie.
April 2, 2026: A landmark MIT study out today challenges the AI job apocalypse — and the data lands somewhere more optimistic than the headlines sugge...
Best of Q1 2026: The $1T Market Crash, Citi's Results Mandate, and the AI Revolution at Amazon, Accenture, and Workday
The first quarter of 2026 was not just a collection of headlines. It was a definitive "hard reset" for the global workforce, marking the moment where...
Claude Mythos Leaked, AI Agents Done Wrong, JPMorgan's New Performance Rules, and the Gen Z Reality Check
March 27, 2026: Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Mythos — its most powerful model ever — and the implications for cybersecurity and enterprise AI...
The AI Liability Era Begins, Salesforce Freezes Pay, and Why 95% of Job Postings Still Don't Mention AI
March 26, 2026: A California jury found Meta and YouTube liable for deliberately addictive platform design — and the legal framework they used is head...
863 Applications Per Hire, 78% of Workers Scared, and Microsoft Blows Up HR
March 25, 2026: Fortune reports that the job market has gotten so broken that people are paying $1,500 a month just to have someone apply to jobs on t...
CFOs Say AI Barely Touched Jobs, College Grads Still Worried, Anthropic Releases Economic Index Report
March 24, 2026: Three major research reports dropped today with a combined picture of where AI and work actually stand right now. A landmark NBER work...