PwC Just Measured the AI Jobs Debate. The Verdict Isn’t Growth vs. Loss. It’s a Sorting Mechanism.

PwC Just Measured the AI Jobs Debate. The Verdict Isn’t Growth vs. Loss. It’s a Sorting Mechanism.

by | Jun 18, 2026 | A.I., AI Disruption, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Change Leadership, Disruption, Future Work, Leadership, Leadership at all Levels, Talent, The New World of Work

PwC’s AI Jobs Barometer 2026 found that most-AI-exposed companies grew headcount 52% over the period measured, against 36% for the least-exposed. On its own, that number would settle the AI-jobs argument in favor of growth — and a lot of commentators will stop...
AI Made Your Team Faster. Here Is Why Your Results Haven’t Changed.

AI Made Your Team Faster. Here Is Why Your Results Haven’t Changed.

by | Jun 9, 2026 | A.I., Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Disruption, execution, Future Work, Ideas, Leadership, Peak Performance, Speed, Talent, The New World of Work

Your team adopted AI. Code is getting written faster. Proposals are getting drafted faster. Research that used to take hours takes minutes. And your results have not meaningfully changed. You are not imagining it. And it is not a motivation problem. Dario Amodei Named...
The Greatest Living Mathematician Called It Cognitive Friction. Here Is What He Said AI Just Did to It.

The Greatest Living Mathematician Called It Cognitive Friction. Here Is What He Said AI Just Did to It.

by | Jun 8, 2026 | A.I., Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Brand You, Change, Change Leadership, Disruption, Distinction, Future Work, Ideas, Leadership at all Levels, Peak Performance, Resiliency, Speed, Talent, The New World of Work

His name is Terence Tao. And what he said about cognitive friction and AI last March has not left me since. He won the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics, at 31. Most mathematicians consider him the most gifted pure mathematician alive. He holds a...
743,000 Employees. Routine Tasks 15x Faster. And 96.7% of the Market Still Has Not Converted.

743,000 Employees. Routine Tasks 15x Faster. And 96.7% of the Market Still Has Not Converted.

by | May 27, 2026 | A.I., Agility, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Change, Change Leadership, Culture Change, Disruption, Future Work, Ideas, Leadership at all Levels, Speed, Talent, The New World of Work

The Microsoft Copilot adoption rate tells a story most leaders are not reading correctly. And the number that matters is not the one getting the headlines. Microsoft deployed Copilot to the entire Accenture workforce. 743,000 employees. Roughly the population of...
AI Made Some Scientists 44% More Productive. And Did Almost Nothing for the Rest.

AI Made Some Scientists 44% More Productive. And Did Almost Nothing for the Rest.

by | May 11, 2026 | A.I., Agility, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Brand You, Change, Change Leadership, Disruption, Distinction, Future Work, Leadership, Resiliency, Talent, The New World of Work

TALENT AI Made Some Scientists 44% More Productive. And Did Almost Nothing for the Rest. A new MIT study on AI productivity for research scientists just produced the most important split result in workforce science. Source: Toner-Rodgers, MIT. arXiv:2412.17866....