Work Without Jobs

What you need to know about employee development perennials and new additions. According to Gartner’s annual HR Priorities survey, there are five top priorities for HR leaders in 2024: Leader and Manager Development, Organizational Culture, HR Technologies, Change Management and Career Management and Internal Mobility. We have examined all five trends and compiled the most […]

One of the great pleasures of writing for the Journal is the opportunity to discuss trends, workplace challenges and big picture questions with leading authors and experts. Michael Wiederstein, Caryn Hunt and Sara Küpfer share this year’s personal highlights. On Addressing the Threats and Shortcomings of AI With the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, […]

Companies increasingly realize they cannot avoid agility during disruption and change. In the process, they overlook their biggest lever: agile employee development. Countless articles, books, podcasts, videos, blogs and tired faces: the topic of agility has been omnipresent in the business world for quite some time now. And rightly so: although around half of all […]

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When you know how to lead yourself and others, you are ready to learn how to run entire organizations. Here are the key competencies you need to succeed. Successfully filling a leadership position in an organization has huge self-leadership and employee leadership aspects. Without navigating these fundamentals, it is difficult to ensure the gears of […]

John W. Boudreau, co-author of Work Without Jobs, explains how internal talent marketplaces work, how and when companies set them up – and why they mitigate the current talent shortage. John, big companies have been doing it for some time, and medium and small ones are following suit. They are setting up systems to identify […]

AI initiatives in companies fail not only because of a lack of specialized experts in the workforce but also because of knowledge gaps and communication insufficiencies on the part of executives. Here’s how to change that. What, until December 2022, was more of a smirk behind closed doors in the vast majority of offices has, […]

Why is success with Artificial Intelligence (AI) so elusive, and what can you do about it? Organizations make four key errors in their attempts to do something useful with AI. If there is a 95 percent chance of getting AI wrong, one or more of these factors is likely the cause, and your project will […]

Why is success with Artificial Intelligence (AI) so elusive, and what can you do about it?  In my three decades of working with data, mathematics, computers, and the digital Bermuda Triangle that exists between them, I have come to appreciate many of the difficulties we humans face in putting technology to work. This is particularly […]