Leadership
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AMD CEO Lisa Su tells grads they shape the future, not AI—and the world doesn’t just need ‘people who know how to use powerful tools’
College graduates are turning their tassels and heading into a labor market upended by AI. Knowing how to prompt, vibe code, and work alongside AI agents have increasingly become an expectation—but AMD CEO Lisa Su says knowing how to use the tools isn’t enough. “The world does not just need people who know how to…
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National Spelling Bee champion Shrey Parikh spells 32 words correctly in 90 seconds to win in lightning round tie-breaker
Shrey Parikh felt his body shake from nerves and doubts every time he walked to the microphone at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the final test of a six-year competitive spelling career marked by triumph and heartbreak that he knew could end at any moment. Then he listened to pronouncer Jacques Bailly, and his dour…
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Gen Z is booing AI at graduation. But 2 other villains add to the hiring nightmare
This graduation season, a ritual played out on campuses from Tucson to Orlando: a speaker mentions artificial intelligence, and the caps-and-gowns crowd erupts in boos. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt got it at the University of Arizona. A real estate executive got it at the University of Central Florida, where one graduate even shouted “AI…
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From Target stockrooms to factory floors: The first jobs that shaped Fortune’s Most Powerful Women
The path to the C-suite is rarely linear—more often a winding road marked by setbacks as much as opportunity. For women in particular, the climb across industries from Wall Street to Silicon Valley has often meant breaking through glass ceilings to enter rooms where they were once told they did not belong. But long before…
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Warren Buffett says ‘you’re giving up your potential’ if you don’t have this one skill—and it has nothing to do with the stock market
Particularly with the advent of AI, strong communication skills have become even more critical to success in business. Even some of the biggest tech- and AI-focused companies in the world are shelling out million-dollar pay packages for people who can lead communications efforts at a high level. And it’s a key skill Warren Buffett, one…
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Boos, AI-washing, and ‘low-value human capital’: The psychological traps CEOs are falling into when they botch their AI messaging
Is there a right way for CEOs to communicate AI-related layoffs? We certainly know there’s a wrong way. Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters proved that last week when he said the London-based bank would replace “low-value human capital” with artificial intelligence. The dismissive language triggered outrage from the public, condemnation from unions, and questions from…
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Costco CEO says AI is not stealing workers’ jobs—it’s ‘elevating’ them
The rise of AI has brought sweeping—and often uneasy—predictions about the future of work, with some tech leaders warning that entire categories of jobs could disappear. Elon Musk, for example, believes that in as soon as 10 years time, work could be completely optional thanks to the rise of robotics. But while some companies have…
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As AI slashes white-collar jobs, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says there’s one department still hiring: sales
Legions of students pursued engineering in college in hopes of hitting the hiring market as a hot commodity. But now, their prospects are falling flat among some major employers. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently revealed that the $145 billion cloud-based platform is keeping its engineering headcount unchanged as AI generates bounds of productivity. And the…
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He left big law, became a DJ to pay his bills, and built sports clubs inside refugee camps. Now he wants more members than Bayern Munich
At 18, Jan van Hövell brought a soccer ball to the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana during a 2004 internship with the UN Refugee Agency. He said it was a terrible system, just one ball from one intern, and thousands of kids with nothing to do. “I was the one bringing my football, and we would…
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Adding AI ’employees’ is backfiring by creating new office scapegoats and making human workers sloppier and lazier
In summer 2024, software company Lattice announced some new hires of sorts: a cadre of AI “employees” the firm would onboard, train, and manage like human workers. Though the tech unicorn founded by Sam Altman’s brother ultimately walked back some of the “rights” for its digital employees following pushback after it laid off 15% of…