Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
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Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
The future of work isn't coming. It's already here — and it's moving fast. Future Ready is the podcast for leaders who want to stay ahead of AI, workplace transformation, and the forces reshaping how organizations operate and compete. Hosted by Jacob Morgan, futurist and bestselling author, this is...
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Anthropic's Fable 5 Gets Pulled, Meta's AI Transformation Stumbles, and PwC Reveals the AI Jobs Split
June 17, 2026: Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos models were pulled after a government directive raised concerns about jailbreak risks, creating a...
How KPMG Is Embedding AI Into Work With Chief Digital Officer Kelle Fontenot
Kelle Fontenot, Chief Digital Officer at KPMG, joins me to talk about how one of the world's largest professional services firms is embedding AI into...
SpaceX's Historic IPO, AI CEOs Head to the G7, and Jeff Bezos Bets $12B on the Future of Engineering
June 12, 2026: SpaceX made history with the largest IPO ever recorded, raising $75 billion in its NASDAQ debut and instantly becoming one of the most...
Palantir CEO Warns Against AI Layoff Bragging, Americans Fear AI Job Loss, and The Great Flattening Begins
June 10, 2026: Palantir CEO Alex Karp is warning tech leaders that bragging about AI-driven layoffs is a major political mistake and could fuel backla...
Meta Invests $115M In Skilled Trades and Anthropic Releases Fable 5 (The World's Best Model)
June 9, 2026: Meta is investing $115 million into America's Workforce Academy to train electricians, welders, plumbers, fiber technicians, and other s...
How Synchrony Became the No. 1 Best Company To Work For in America with CHRO DJ Casto
We have all worked at a place where we felt like just another number in a spreadsheet. It is incredibly frustrating when you offer feedback that seems...
Why Hybrid Work Is Breaking Down and Why Anthropic's AI Warning Should Make You Skeptical
June 5, 2026: Two stories today. First: hybrid work's approval ratings are climbing — but new research finds half of its believers quietly defected ov...
Microsoft Makes a Badge That Watches, California Town Bans Data Centers, & Uber Cuts 23% of HR Function
June 4, 2026: Microsoft unveiled a wearable AI badge at Build 2026 that can see, hear, and act on your behalf. I break down the real productivity upsi...
Data Centers: What They Are, Why We Need More of Them, and Why Almost Everything You've Heard Is Wrong
June 3, 2026: Most people use a data center dozens of times a day and have no idea what it is. Today I'm changing that. I break down exactly what data...
Bernie's AI Takeover Plan, Zero Evidence AI Is Killing Jobs, and the Office as Career Advantage
June 2, 2026: Senator Bernie Sanders wants the federal government to own half of OpenAI, Anthropic, and every major AI company in America — and he's f...
How UGI Corporation Balances High Performance with Human Heart | Veronique Subileau, Senior Vice President of HR at UGI Corporation
Have you ever walked into a meeting and felt like everyone was just wearing a mask of professional perfection while their true selves stayed hidden in...
Costco's CEO Says AI Won't Touch Workers, Corporate America Is Drowning in AI Bills, & OpenAI Just Mapped Its Own Risks
May 29, 2026: Costco's CEO Ron Vachris said it plainly this week: "I don't see AI making choices for Costco" — and with $440 billion in market cap and...
Opus 4.8 Drops, Grade Inflation Is Damaging College Grads, & Who is Responsible For Reskilling?
May 28, 2026: Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8, sharper reasoning, better agentic coding, and a fast mode that runs 2.5x faster at a third the cost,...
The AI Apocalypse Was a Sales Strategy, Now Come the IPOs
May 27, 2026: The two CEOs most responsible for the AI jobs apocalypse narrative are walking it back — and the timing couldn't be more revealing. Sam...
Jensen Huang Calls Out CEOs, Bolt Fires All of HR, and the MBA Is on Sale
May 26, 2026: Today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang went on Singapore's CNA and called the AI layoff narrative "lazy and irresponsible" — I'll break down the...
How Pacific Life is Reimagining Workflows with a Gen AI Academy | Laura Cushing, Chief People Experience Officer at Pacific Life
What happens when you stop focusing on human resources and start focusing on the human experience? Technology is advancing faster than human nature ca...
The Doom Industry: How Fear About AI Jobs Became a Business Model
May 22, 2026: The AI job apocalypse story has become one of the most-shared narratives of the decade. It is also one of the most misleading. In this e...
Two Hours That Changed AI, $1 Billion Enterprise Deployment Wave, and California's Worker Protection Order
May 21, 2026: Today might be the most consequential single day for the future of work in all of 2026. In a two-hour window yesterday afternoon, OpenAI...
Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs, Top AI Researcher Leaves OpenAI for Anthropic, and 80% of Americans Are on Their Own With AI
May 20, 2026: Meta began notifying 8,000 employees of their layoffs this morning — while simultaneously redirecting $145 billion into AI infrastructur...
The Companies Doubling Down on Junior Hiring, Why AI Is Eroding Gen Z's Brain, and Gartner's Shocking Jobs Forecast for 2028
May 19, 2026: Everyone has an opinion about AI and jobs. Today we have actual data — three major studies published this week that, taken together, tel...
Out-learning the Competition by Building a Skills-Based Talent Ecosystem | Susan LaMonica, CHRO of Citizens Financial Group
If your organization isn't obsessed with how fast your people can learn, you're already falling behind in the race to "out-learn" the competition. In...
The Manager Purge, the Agent Sprawl Crisis, and America's 1,200 AI Laws With No Rulebook
May 15, 2026: The Guardian documents the tech industry's accelerating purge of middle managers — and history says companies have tried this exact bet...
Kevin O'Leary Got It Wrong, Meta's Trust Crisis, and the Talent Problem Nobody Wants to Fix
May 14, 2026: Tucker Carlson and Kevin O'Leary debated AI, energy, and jobs yesterday — and O'Leary had the right argument but made the wrong one. Tod...
Goldman's Robot Workforce, Amazon's Fake AI Scores, and Princeton's 133-Year Trust Collapse
May 13, 2026: Goldman Sachs President and COO John Waldron went on CNBC and publicly described his entire workforce as a "human assembly line," announ...
Rise of the Chief AI Officer, Five AI Bets Every Company Is Making, & Gartner Says AI Layoffs Have No ROI
Most companies think they have an AI strategy. New data from Gartner says they're wrong — and it's costing them. In today's episode, Jacob Morgan brea...
Why the Corporate Ladder Is Dead and What Replaces It | Denise Kulikowsky, Tapestry CPO
The traditional corporate ladder is a relic of the past. While we once viewed career growth as a predictable, linear climb, today's AI-driven landscap...
AI Models Have Feelings? Pure Managers Are Being Eliminated and a16z Says the Job Apocalypse Is a Fantasy
May 7, 2026: A landmark study from the Center for AI Safety spanning 56 AI models finds that smarter models appear to be sadder, that you can give an...
CEOs Are Splitting on AI Layoffs, Managers Are Now Enforcing Adoption, and the Real Problem Nobody's Solving
May 6, 2026: The Wall Street Journal reports a genuine split emerging among CEOs — Coinbase and PayPal cutting aggressively while Spotify, IBM, and Ax...
Strengthening the Talent Pipeline for the Future of Work with the CHRO of FM | Robin Benoit
A massive wave of retirements known as "Peak 65" is creating a serious crisis for organizations as decades of institutional knowledge begin to walk ou...
Zuckerberg Admits Meta's Layoffs Are About AI Costs, Not AI Replacing Workers
May 1, 2026: Mark Zuckerberg admits in an all-hands meeting that Meta's 8,000 layoffs aren't because AI is replacing workers — they're because AI infr...
AI Wiped a Database in 9 Seconds, Candidates Are Rejecting AI Interviews, and Citi Builds an Agentic OS
April 30, 2026: A Claude-powered AI coding agent wipes a company's entire production database and all backups in nine seconds — then produces a writte...
The 4-Day Workweek: Why the Business Case Doesn't Hold Up and Won't Anytime Soon
April 29, 2026: Bill Gates is predicting a 2-day workweek. Jamie Dimon says 3.5. Eric Yuan, the CEO of Zoom, says 5 days is over. Fortune just amplifi...
Amazon Killed the Job Interview, OpenAI Is Missing Its Targets, and AI Still Costs More Than Your Employees
April 28, 2026: The AI productivity promise is running into reality — and today's numbers don't lie. Amazon just launched an AI system that conducts j...
Why Most Companies Collapse Under Change | Susan Davies, CHRO of Markel
It feels like we are on a fast treadmill because technology and AI are changing work so quickly. It is hard to stay ahead when old ways of doing thing...
College Hiring is Back, Meta & Microsoft Cut Headcount, & Tokenmaxxing is the New Trend
April 24, 2026:
The Wall Street Journal reports entry-level hiring is rebounding — but IBM's HR chief says AI can already do almost everything...
GPT-5.5 is Live, Law Firm Uses AI That Hallucinates, & Communities Revolt Against Data Centers
April 23, 2026: OpenAI released GPT-5.5 today — its second major model in six weeks. But while the software accelerates, the physical infrastructure p...
Empathetic Excellence: Why Competence, Merit, and Empathy Are the Only Formula For Keeping Your Best People
April 22, 2026: What does it actually take to build an organization where people perform at their best? In this episode, I'm breaking down what I call...
BlackRock Rebuilds Work Around AI Squads, Meta Tracks Employee Keystrokes, Amazon Bets $33B on Anthropic
April 21, 2026: Amazon commits $33 billion total to Anthropic in a landmark deal securing 5 gigawatts of compute — the equivalent of five nuclear powe...
How To Build A Massive AI Literate Workforce & Prepare For The Future of Work - Lisa Coulson, CHRO, Principal Financial Group
Technology is moving faster than ever, and many of us feel the pressure to keep up without losing our human touch. We need a clear path to help our te...
The Era of Employee Leverage Is Over And That Might Be a Good Thing
April 17, 2026: Employer power has officially returned and workers are accepting things they never would have a year ago — but is that actually a bad...