Leadership
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Big Four consulting has 2 AI nightmares. KPMG’s answer to both is the same
The fear stalking the consulting industry right now comes in two flavors. The first is that AI can’t be trusted — that the same tools promising to transform client work will confidently produce wrong answers, expose firms to liability, and erode the hard-won trust that is the entire basis of the business. The second fear…
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Ex-Google engineer turned $7.2 billion AI CEO gets thousands of job applications a day but still can’t find candidates with a strong work ethic
Millions of Gen Z graduates are convinced they’ve drawn the short straw of the labor market: ghosting is rife in recruiting, entry-level roles feel scarce, and predictions of an AI job apocalypse are making it all worse. Yet Arvind Jain, ex-Google engineer and Rubrik co-founder, says he’s facing the opposite problem. “Students think it’s hard…
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Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary blasts the 4-day week as the ‘stupidest idea’ because the digital economy means we’re always working
Millionaire Shark Tankjudge Kevin O’Leary isn’t a fan of the shift to a four-day workweek, laughing off the idea in a Fox News appearance. Instead, he said in today’s modern workplace, everything is project-based, and tasks need to be completed by their deadline: “There’s no such thing as a workweek anymore.” If you have dreams…
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Forget quiet quitting—4 in 10 millennials are taking ‘quiet vacations’ and checking out of work (and the country) on company dime instead
Nearly 4 in 10 millennials secretly take time off work and go on vacation behind their bosses back. They’re taking their work phone to the beach, and checking in on their emails every so often to not get caught. Here’s how to tell if your worker is one of them this summer. It feels like…
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Simon Sinek says the most successful people in the world ‘hit zero’ or came close to it: Failure is ‘the gift’
While it may feel as if successful people are leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of us, people who have made major career or business accomplishments have also been in the trenches. In fact, management guru Simon Sinek said all successful people have hit rock bottom before reaching their pinnacle. “I have never met…
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PepsiCo CPO says their ‘secret sauce’ to hiring top talent is that they all have hustle—And are agile and curious in the AI era
Employers are shifting their hiring requirements in the AI era; while some are seeking vibe coding and prompting skills, others are doubling down on human intuition and empathy. Becky Schmitt, the chief people officer at PepsiCo, says the legacy brand is still looking for old-school skills as it shifts gears amid its current tech transformation.…
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40 is the new 50: Millennial jobseekers are giving their resumes a facelift by hiding years of experience to land jobs
Millennials are feeling the pressure of the white-collar job recession. Jobseekers in their 30s and 40s have begun slimming down their resumes to reflect only the past 10 years of experience and limiting their public work history on LinkedIn and professional websites, Business Insider reported earlier this year. Online resume advice gurus are also encouraging…
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Meet the 32-year-old who is America’s only full-time spelling bee coach — he charges up to $180 per hour
When Dev Shah won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2023 and Faizan Zaki took the title last year, they posed for remarkably similar photos on the confetti-strewn stage. Standing next to them, beaming, was a bespectacled man in an aloha shirt, holding up a copy of his book “Words of Wisdom.” For Scott Remer,…
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Is a college degree is still worth it? Here are 3 things it can teach you that AI can’t do
College is expensive, and a growing number of skeptics have questioned its value proposition. Palantir CEO Alex Karp said late last year it doesn’t really matter where his employees went to college, and Apple CEO Tim Cook has said a four-year degree isn’t even required to work at the company. The rise of AI has…
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Millionaire podcaster Mel Robbins hits back at Gen Z’s lazy label—she says they’re stuck in a world their baby boomer parents wouldn’t even recognize
Gen Z has been branded a “lazy” generation of workers, marked by their TikTok addiction and work-from-home allegiance. But multi-millionaire podcast personality Mel Robbins hit back at critics who slam the next generation of workers—and even encouraged them to step into their shoes and see if they’d like it. “We sit here and we look…