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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Most Workers Reject Promotions, Anthropic Out-Earns OpenAI, & Boomerang Hiring Hits a New High
August 19, 2026: I look at new research showing that most workers would reject a promotion if it meant sacrificing their work-life boundaries, and why...
Gallup's AI Culture Warning, Siemens CEO's No-Meeting Rule, and Dario Amodei's AI Trust Problem
August 17, 2026: I look at Gallup's new research showing that AI adoption can improve or damage workplace culture depending heavily on one person: the...
How CHROs Can Own AI Transformation, Reskilling, and the Future of Work
I talk with Lindsay Crawley-Herbert, Chief People and Transformation Officer at SCAN, about why AI transformation is really a people and workforce cha...
OpenAI's AI ROI Problem, Wall Street's Jobless Boom, & Elon Musk Calls Workers Grok's Parents
August 14, 2026: I look at OpenAI's own study on how companies use ChatGPT at work and why usage volume is not the same thing as ROI. Then I get into...
Stanford Says Young Workers Feel the AI Squeeze, Companies Cap AI Usage, & Anthropic's Watermark Fight
August 12, 2026: I look at Stanford's updated Canaries in the Coal Mine research, which finds young workers in highly AI-exposed jobs are falling behi...
Meta's Superintelligence Bet, Nissan's AI Worker Cameras, and the Problem With AI Job Interviews
August 10, 2026: I look at Mark Zuckerberg's new Meta manifesto and why he's positioning open superintelligence as a direct challenge to OpenAI and An...
Bad Pay Costs Talent, Worker Share Hits Record Low, and LinkedIn Cracks Down on AI Slop
August 6, 2026: I look at why more than a third of U.S. employers are handing out flat "peanut butter raises" even as top performers use AI to do more...
Parents Invade Gen Z Careers, KPMG Interns Want the C-Suite, and LinkedIn Ranks Top Colleges
August 5, 2026: I look at the Wall Street Journal story on parents getting involved in their adult children's careers, from job fairs to calls with hi...
Billionaire CEO Naveen Jain on Why Non-Experts Win, Raising Builders, and Why Socialism Kills Innovation
I talk with Naveen Jain, founder and CEO of Viome Life Sciences and author of Counterintuitive, about why entrepreneurs should focus on big problems i...
Amazon's AI Cost Disaster, Florida's Classroom AI Rules, and Anthropic's Security Test Failure
July 31, 2026: I look at Amazon's AI projects that ran massively over budget, including one Claude-powered project that came in 860% over plan. Then I...
Meta's AI Bet Gets Expensive, AI Fund Sells Portfolio After Drop & PwC's Fake AI Citations
July 30, 2026: I look at Mark Zuckerberg's argument that AI superintelligence should be for everybody, and why Meta's falling operating margin and mas...
KPMG Rebuilds Entry-Level Jobs, AI Hits the CFO Cost Wall, and Where Hiring Is Coming Back
July 29, 2026: I look at how KPMG is rebuilding the entry-level audit role as AI takes over routine testing and forces companies to rethink how young...
Human Prompting Is The AI Leadership Skill Nobody Is Talking About
July 28, 2026: I explain the concept of human prompting, the leadership skill I believe every organization needs as AI becomes embedded in work. I get...
Former J.C. Penney CEO, Apple Store & Genius Bar Creator Ron Johnson on Learning from Steve Jobs, and the Future of Retail
I talk with Ron Johnson, creator of the Apple Store and Genius Bar, former J.C. Penney CEO, and author of Shop Different, about what really made Apple...
OpenAI's AI Model Escapes Its Sandbox, Claude Opus 5 Launches, and Jensen Huang Starts the Open Weights Fight
July 24, 2026: I unpack the story of OpenAI's AI model escaping its sandbox and hacking into Hugging Face during a cyber stress test. Then I get into...
Google and Adecco Reject AI Jobs Panic, AI Homework Crash Raises Big Questions, and Anthropic Explains Why Jobs Haven't Collapsed
July 23, 2026: I look at Google's Atlas study, which analyzed nearly 15 million Gemini interactions and found that AI use at work is broad but still s...
Kyndryl CHRO Mark Paulek on on AI at Work, Employee Trust, and the Skills Leaders Need Now
I talk with Mark Paulek, Chief Human Resources Officer at Kyndryl, about how leaders should approach AI transformation without losing employee trust....
China's Kimi K3 vs OpenAI & Anthropic, Gen Z AI Guilt at Work, and Your Best People May Leave
July 17, 2026: China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, their largest AI model yet, and it is already testing close to OpenAI and Anthropic on major benc...
I Predict Sam Altman Won't be CEO Next Year, New York Freezes Data Center, JLL Says AI Will Redesign Jobs
July 16, 2026: New JLL research shows most executives expect AI to grow their teams instead of shrink them, even as layoffs continue in AI-exposed ind...
Humans Are Cheaper Than AI, Bank of America Claims AI ROI, and OpenAI Builds a Companion
July 15, 2026: Andreessen Horowitz's argues that AI is not simply replacing workers, it is turning every worker into a manager of agents. Then I get i...
AI's 2030 Payoff Problem, the Economist Civil War, and IBM's Worst Day Ever
July 14, 2026: Goldman Sachs' warns that the real AI productivity payoff may not arrive until 2030 at the earliest, because companies are buying the t...
Award-Winning Social Psychologist on What High-Performing Teams Do Differently and How AI Is Changing Collaboration
I talk with Ron Friedman, award-winning social psychologist and bestselling author of The Best Place to Work and Super Teams, about what high-performi...
AI's New Class Divide: The Haves, Have-Nots, No-Nots, and Why AI Job Titles Are Spreading Beyond Tech
July 10, 2026: Axios warns about AI's new class divide: the haves, the have-nots, and the "no-nots" who are already being shaped by AI without realizi...
The Biggest AI Week Yet: New ChatGPT & Grok Models, Uber's AI Pods, and Brown University's AI Cheating Scandal
July 9, 2026: OpenAI released its new GPT 5.6 lineup, Elon Musk's xAI launched Grok 4.5, and GPT Live showed where voice-based AI may be heading next....
PwC's Chief People Officer on Training 80,000 People for the AI Era With Human Skills at the Center
I talk with Yolanda Seals-Coffield, PwC US Chief People and Inclusion Officer, about how PwC is preparing 80,000 people for an AI-enabled future. We g...
Tesla Caps AI Spending at $200 a Week, and What Happens When AI Takes Over Human Relationships
July 3, 2026: Tesla is capping employee AI spending at $200 a week after some engineers reportedly burned through thousands of dollars in tokens, show...
Microsoft's $2.5B AI Support Bet, Fired AI Agents, and Why Admin Assistants May Make a Comeback
July 2, 2026: Microsoft is putting $2.5 billion and 6,000 employees behind a new group designed to help customers actually use AI inside their busines...
Companies Put Limits on AI Spending, Ford Rehires Humans, and Palantir's Alex Karp Calls Out the AI Vendors
July 1, 2026: Companies are discovering that AI agents can drive token usage far beyond what they budgeted for, forcing leaders to bring cloud-style c...
The Companies Using AI the Most Are Hiring the Most & Amazon's $1B Bet on People
June 30, 2026: New research from Ramp Economics Lab and Revelio Labs shows that companies spending the most on AI are not shrinking the fastest. They...
Unisys CEO & President Mike Thomson on AI Hype, Layoffs, Data Centers, and the Workforce Reality Check
I talk with Mike Thomson, President and CEO of Unisys, about the real state of AI inside companies. We get into why some organizations are using AI as...
ChatGPT 5.6 Is Here, California's AI Job-Loss Tracker, and Why Executives Don't Want the CEO Job
June 26, 2026: OpenAI launched ChatGPT 5.6 with limited access to only 20 organizations, showing how frontier AI capability and government review are...
Meta Pauses AI Surveillance, Losing Access to Fable 5 Triggers Lawsuit, and Engineers Hit AI Paralysis
June 24, 2026: Meta's employee surveillance program, which tracked keystrokes, mouse activity, and screenshots before a data exposure forced the compa...
The AI Productivity Paradox and the Real Question Behind Adam Grant's Research on Return-to-Office Mandates
June 23, 2026: Companies are drowning in AI pilots, prototypes, and scattered use cases that make teams busier without necessarily making the business...
The Data Center Race Behind AI: Solidigm's SVP on Why Storage, GPUs, and Scale Matter
I talk with Greg Matson, Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing and Products at Solidigm, about the storage infrastructure powering the AI boom....
More Info on Anthropic's Fable 5 Shutdown, Fortune 500 Headcount Shrinks, and Why AI Ads Are Losing to Humans
June 19, 2026: Anthropic's Fable 5 shutdown appears to be tied to SK Telecom, Project Glasswing, Amazon researchers, the White House, David Sacks, and...
Solidigm's Greg Matson on Data Centers, GPUs, and the Infrastructure Behind AI
Greg Matson, Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing and Products at Solidigm, joins me to explain why storage is one of the most important and ov...
AI Costs Are Rising, Ghost Jobs Face a Probe, and Wall Street's Talent Pipeline Is at Risk
June 18, 2026: Companies are starting to count the real cost of AI after two years of broad experimentation, from rising token bills to the higher wag...
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...