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A recent global study found that 90% of CEOs believe AI will shape their industry, and a similar share plan to increase AI investment. Ask HR and business leaders the same question about their own organization today, and only 38% see GenAI as highly or strongly relevant right now. Sit with that gap, which is not so surprising. The leaders setting strategy at the top believe AI is inevitable. The people closest to the workforce, closest to the actual mechanics of adoption, are not convinced it...

A recent global study of more than 7,000 HR and business leaders found something worth sitting with. 65% of senior leaders view HR as a key business enabler. 51%, in the same breath, cite administrative load as the primary reason HR cannot make a more strategic contribution. Read those two numbers together and a pattern emerges. Organizations believe in the value of strategic HR. They have not built the conditions for it to exist. This is not a new problem dressed in new language. It is the...

I started a new journal this week. It is titled Grateful. I did not yet know that the whole summer had been teaching me why. This summer, I went home to visit. I reconnected with so many, a grade school teacher, a schoolmate, and many more. I also reconnected with my first manager in HR, the person who handed me my earliest understanding of what leadership actually requires, long before I had language for any of it. Neither reunion was planned as a lesson. Both became one anyway. What...