Leadership
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The Gen Z Pout and the Gen Z Stare are both a warning to Fortune 500 CEOs
When a customer at a fast-food counter asks for help, and the teenage employee responds with a blank, unblinking stare, it’s easy to write it off as a bad day. When it happens enough to earn its own Wikipedia page, it’s a workforce trend. The “Gen Z stare” — a deadpan, unresponsive gaze that young
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Gen Z graduates’ best shot at good pay and homeownership isn’t in New York or L.A.—it’s Omaha and Dallas
College graduates are turning their tassels and searching for cities with ample job opportunities as AI swipes white-collar roles. But popular hotspots like New York City and Los Angeles may not be their best bet—they may have better luck kick-starting their adult lives in less glitzy cities. The top 10 best big U.S. cities for
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Lululemon names former Nike executive O’Neill its next CEO
Lululemon Athletica Inc. named Heidi O’Neill its new chief executive officer on Wednesday as the athletic retailer looks to move beyond a turbulent period of slowing growth and investor unrest. O’Neill, who was most recently Nike Inc.’s president of consumer, product and brand, will take over as permanent CEO on September 8, the company said
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Best Buy CEO Corie Barry is stepping down: How she went from architect of a comeback to cautionary tale
When Corie Barry was named CEO of Best Buy seven years ago this month, hopes were high that the electronics retailer would build on a period of successful reinvention. After all, she was a key architect of that reinvention, as chief strategic transformation officer under her predecessor Hubert Joly. But it was not to be:
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Elon Musk thinks college is ‘basically for fun’—but his former Tesla HR chief tells Gen Z even their liberal arts degrees are more valuable than ever
Gen Z’s relationship with higher education has never been more fraught. Soaring tuition costs and a brutal entry-level job market have left many young people questioning whether getting a degree was worth it at all. But Valerie Capers Workman, who served as vice president of people at Tesla, has a sharply different message for the
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Steve Jobs called Tim Cook ‘not a product person,’ but still hand-picked him to run Apple and turn it into a $4 trillion tech giant
Tim Cook and Steve Jobs couldn’t have been more different, according to the Apple founder’s biographer Walter. Jobs was a creative genius that spearheaded the development of Apple’s signature products including the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPod. But he was also a hothead, known for pushing people to their limits and sometimes creating conflict
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Stephen and Ayesha Curry are coming for the sports drink market—and their kids were the first focus group
Stephen and Ayesha Curry are globally famous and could probably get, well, pretty much anyone to pick up the phone. But when they needed just the right audience to taste test whether a nutritious sports drink they were considering backing was going to be a hit, they turned to the most discerning audience they knew:
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Boards say the C-suite owns the AI strategy. The C-suite doesn’t agree
Boards are clear. The C-suite is running AI. In a new Pearl Meyer survey of 108 executives and board members released on Wednesday, 90% of board members said responsibility for leading artificial intelligence effectively belongs with the C-suite and their direct reports—essentially all the most-senior executives within a company. Inside the C-suite itself? Executives are
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Craving work-life balance is a huge red flag, says Fortune 500 CEO—and like Barack Obama, he happily works through the weekends
While millennial and Gen Z workers consistently rank work-life balance as their number one priority, Iñaki Ereño, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest healthcare companies, says if you’re obsessing over balance, your problem isn’t the hours. It’s the job. “When the balance of your life becomes a topic, then you have a
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John Ternus, the man stepping into Tim Cook and Steve Jobs’ shoes, is a 25-year Apple veteran with zero LinkedIn posts
Apple’s next CEO John Ternus is a company veteran who rose through the iPhone maker’s hardware engineering ranks but until now has maintained a low profile. Ternus will take over as chief executive in September for Tim Cook, who turned Apple into a $4 trillion tech colossus during his 15-year run after the death of