Leadership
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says electricians and plumbers will be needed by the hundreds of thousands in the new working world
Gen Z keeps being told their chances of landing a job are slim as AI threatens entry-level jobs. But in reality, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says, there are thousands of jobs for young people, thanks to an accelerating boom in data centers. They just have to be willing to go to trade school. “If you’re…
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Executive pay climbed again in 2025—and the CEO-to-worker gap kept widening
Elon Musk earned more in fiscal year 2025 than any other public company executive—by an almost incomprehensible margin. His $158.4 billion Tesla stock award, reinstated by the Delaware Supreme Court after years of litigation, placed him atop the annual executive compensation rankings published by C-Suite Comp, whose data covers approximately 3,700 public company chief executives…
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Cape Verde’s Roberto Lopes was working at a bank when he was recruited on LinkedIn to play soccer—he thought it was spam, now he’s at the World Cup
When Roberto Lopes received a seemingly random LinkedIn message in 2018, he assumed it was spam and ignored it. At the time, Lopes—nicknamed “Pico”—was working at a Dublin bank while playing part-time for Shamrock Rovers, an Irish soccer club. Born to an Irish mother and a Cape Verdean father, he had unknowingly been flagged by…
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Meet the SpaceX insiders Elon Musk trusts to run his $1.25 trillion empire
Everyone knows Elon Musk is the genius behind the biggest stock market debut of all time. But even a genius, in the immortal words of Jim Collins, needs a thousand helpers. So who, exactly, is helping him run SpaceX? The company Musk founded in an El Segundo, Calif. warehouse in 2002 is not quite the…
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With the exits of Apple’s Tim Cook and Dow’s Jim Fitterling, the Fortune 500 is losing two groundbreaking gay CEOs—leaving just one
When Jim Fitterling of Dow and Tim Cook of Apple step down as CEOs in July and September respectively, the Fortune 500 will lose two widely respected leaders who led their companies through transformational eras. The exits of the two men, who both identify as gay, will also mark a dispiriting step backward for LGBTQ+…
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‘Work-life balance is a lie’: TIAA’s CEO broke down at a bus terminal after a long work day, then found a better way to think about it
Many professionals struggle with chasing work-life balance—TIAA President and CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett was one of them, until a breakdown in a bus terminal over her intense schedule gave her an epiphany. “Work-life balance is a lie. It never reconciles…so get rid of that,” Duckett recalled the wakeup moment in Fortune’s Titans and Disruptors of…
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Arianna Huffington doesn’t believe in work-life balance but swears by one boundary to switch off from work—and Ralph Lauren’s CHRO has adopted it too
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington built her media empire off the back of 18-hour work days. At one point, collapsing from sheer exhaustion.But even now that she’s a multimillionaire, 75 years old, and running a wellness startup, she still insists there’s no such thing as balance—and there’s only one boundary she sticks to. “I don’t…
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How to run a company when the AI agents vastly outnumber the humans
Having a “human in the loop” is the typical recommendation for organizations using artificial intelligence for jobs in which there’s no margin for error. But what happens when it’s just not possible to keep a human in the loop? As the use of AI ramps up within organizations and as businesses delegate more tasks to…
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LinkedIn research says half of C-suite leaders are flying blind on AI—and its CBO says they can’t fix it the way they’re trying
About halfway through a conversation with Fortune last week, LinkedIn chief business officer Mark Lobosco was asked a blunt question: How much of the enterprise AI adoption story is about executives who resist understanding because their jobs depend on them not understanding it? After all, they spent the vast majority of their careers in a…
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Entry-level work didn’t disappear, PwC finds with ‘seniorization.’ It just morphed into something young workers can’t get
We’ve all heard the debate about AI and jobs: An apocalypse is coming, there are only 18 months left to save white-collar work, no job will be unchanged. Former White House AI czar David Sacks, shortly before he resigned in a dispute over policy, argued doomsday predictions from figures such as Dario Amodei and Sam…