Current thinking on how AI is reshaping people leadership, talent strategy, and the operating model of work itself. Patterns from the conversations I am in right now, frameworks worth sharing, and the kinds of things I find myself coming back to.
AI-Era TA, part 3 of 3 What stopped working The hiring signals most TA functions still optimize for stopped predicting performance somewhere between 2023 and 2025. Seniority. Volume of personal output. Process mastery. Tool specialization. Each of these used to […]
AI-Era TA, part 2 of 3 Where most growth-stage TA scorecards sit today If you’re running TA at a company between 80 and 200 people, your scorecard probably looks like time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate, cost-per-hire, and a gut sense of […]
AI-Era TA, part 1 of 3 The compression is real, and it’s around you In April, Daniel Kafer published a compression model for a 2,500-person US company. HR compresses 51%, going from five organizational layers to three. Marketing compresses 49%. […]
Most People teams are trying to bolt AI onto an operating model designed for a different era. New tools, same org chart. New dashboards, same five layers. New vendors, same assumptions about who does what and why. It isn’t working, […]
There’s a lot of conversation in the People and Talent world about candidate experience. How do we attract the right people? How do we make the process feel human? How do we avoid the black hole? Important questions, and they […]
Are you a manager? Are you a coach? Is it an either/or, or is it an and? I think about this question a lot, and it comes up often in conversations I have with leaders across different industries and org […]
Imagine applying for a job. You’ve found a role that feels like a genuine fit. You put real effort into your application, tailor your resume, maybe write a cover letter. You hit submit and get an automated acknowledgment within minutes. […]
People often ask if I’ve heard of this HR tool or that recruiting platform. Most of the time, I have. The conversation has shifted dramatically over the past few years though. It used to be about whether a tool could […]
The term “employer brand” comes up a lot in conversations I have with people across the People and Talent world. It always has. But what’s changed is the context around it, and the stakes. Not too long ago, employer brand […]