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By Geoff Colvin

December 17, 2025

Future of Work

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Accenture exec gets real on transformation: ‘the data and AI strategy is not a separate strategy, it is the business strategy’

By Nick Lichtenberg

December 16, 2025

AWS CEO says replacing young employees with AI is ‘one of the dumbest ideas’—and bad for business: ‘At some point the whole thing explodes on itself’

By Sasha Rogelberg

December 16, 2025

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  Reese Witherspoon says, ‘I don’t think my career would be possible’ in the age of AI and social media: ‘It’s a different world’

  By Sydney Lake

  December 16, 2025

As millions of Gen Zers face unemployment, McDonald’s CEO dishes out some tough love career advice for navigating the market: ‘You’ve got to make things happen for yourself’

By Preston Fore

December 16, 2025

Success

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Satya Nadella called IQ without emotional intelligence a ‘waste.’ Research shows being vulnerable at work can even help CEOs win investor trust

By Sasha Rogelberg

December 16, 2025

Elon Musk’s wealth has soared past $600 billion—he’s now worth double the next richest person alive, Google’s cofounder Larry Page

By Emma Burleigh

December 16, 2025

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  Reese Witherspoon says, ‘I don’t think my career would be possible’ in the age of AI and social media: ‘It’s a different world’

  By Sydney Lake

  December 16, 2025

As millions of Gen Zers face unemployment, McDonald’s CEO dishes out some tough love career advice for navigating the market: ‘You’ve got to make things happen for yourself’

By Preston Fore

December 16, 2025

C-Suite

More in C-Suite

Accenture exec gets real on transformation: ‘the data and AI strategy is not a separate strategy, it is the business strategy’

By Nick Lichtenberg

December 16, 2025

Elon Musk’s wealth has soared past $600 billion—he’s now worth double the next richest person alive, Google’s cofounder Larry Page

By Emma Burleigh

December 16, 2025

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  As millions of Gen Zers face unemployment, McDonald’s CEO dishes out some tough love career advice for navigating the market: ‘You’ve got to make things happen for yourself’

  By Preston Fore

  December 16, 2025

Trump has ‘an alcoholic’s personality,’ chief of staff says in wide-ranging Vanity Fair interview. She calls it a ‘hit piece’

By Darlene Superville, Bill Barrow and The Associated Press

December 16, 2025

Workplace Culture

More in Workplace Culture

AWS CEO says replacing young employees with AI is ‘one of the dumbest ideas’—and bad for business: ‘At some point the whole thing explodes on itself’

By Sasha Rogelberg

December 16, 2025

PwC U.K. is giving Gen Z grads ‘resilience’ training in their first 6 months on the job, to get better at handling criticisms and office politics

By Emma Burleigh

December 15, 2025

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  Meetings are not work, says Southwest Airlines CEO—and he’s taking action, by blocking his calendar every afternoon from Wednesday to Friday 

  By Preston Fore

  December 15, 2025

Deloitte’s CTO on a stunning AI transformation stat: Companies are spending 93% on tech and only 7% on people

By Nick Lichtenberg

December 15, 2025

Latest Stories

Politics

Trump says ‘starting’ land strikes over drugs in latest warning

By Justin Sink and Bloomberg

Economy

The Fed just ‘Trump-proofed’ itself with a unanimous move to preempt a potential leadership shake-up

By Jason Ma

Health

Factor Meals Review 2025: Tester Approved

By Christina Snyder

Innovation

‘The question is really just how long it will take’: Over 2,000 gather at Humanoids Summit to meet the robots who may take their jobs someday

By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press

Politics

House Democrats release new Epstein photos including Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew

By Stephen Groves and The Associated Press

Law

Michigan mystery revealed: Fired football coach had broken into a lover’s apartment and threatened to kill himself when their affair ended

By Ed White and The Associated Press

Law

32-year-old’s death on Universal roller coaster was accidental despite deep forehead gash, investigation finds

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

Health

‘Tragedy in the making’: Top healthcare exec on why insurance will spike to subsidize a tax cut to millionaires and billionaires

By Nick Lichtenberg

More Leadership

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Economy

What CEOs say about AI and what they mean about layoffs and job cuts: Goldman Sachs peels the onion

By Nick Lichtenberg

December 2, 2025

Success

Harvard MBA grads are landing jobs paying $184K—but a record number are still ditching the corporate world and choosing entrepreneurship instead

By Preston Fore

December 2, 2025

Workplace Culture

‘Ambulances had to be called, it was a whole thing’: How HR leaders deal with too much fun at holiday parties

By Vicky Valet and HR Brew

December 2, 2025

Commentary

Why time is becoming the new currency of giving

By Arndrea Waters King and Ayesha Curry

December 2, 2025

Success

As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’

By Emma Burleigh

December 2, 2025

North America

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos commit $102.5 million to organizations combating homelessness across the U.S.: ‘This is just the beginning’

By Sydney Lake

December 2, 2025

AI

Meet Amar Subramanya, the 46-year-old Google and Microsoft veteran who will now steer Apple’s supremely important AI strategy

By Dave Smith

December 2, 2025

Commentary

At Anthropic, we believe that AI can increase nonprofit capacity. And we’ve worked with over 100 organizations so far on getting it right

By Elizabeth Kelly

December 2, 2025

Commentary

Decapitated by activists: the collapse of CEO tenure and how to fight back

By Mark Thompson

December 2, 2025

AI

After mass AI college-cheating freakout, many admissions offices are using it to screen student applications

By Jocelyn Gecker and The Associated Press

December 2, 2025

Success

Michael and Susan Dell believe their $6.25 billion donation for ‘Trump Accounts’ is the largest single private commitment to U.S. children

By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press

December 2, 2025

Law

Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders visit striking Starbucks baristas on picket line as union demands contract after nearly 4 years

By Jennifer Peltz and The Associated Press

December 2, 2025

Economy

Michael Dell talks candidly about his $6.25 billion donation to fund Invest America accounts for 25 million American children

By Diane Brady

December 2, 2025

Success

Warren Buffett used to give his family $10,000 each at Christmas—but when he saw how fast they were spending it, he started buying them shares instead

By Eleanor Pringle

December 2, 2025

Innovation

The tech world should abandon minimalist design in favor of more ‘expressive’ options says Samsung’s first Chief Design Officer, Mauro Porcini

By Angelica Ang

December 2, 2025

Newsletters

Why smart CEOs are looking past the rosy ‘record Black Friday’ headlines

By Phil Wahba

December 2, 2025

C-Suite

MacKenzie Scott’s $19 billion donations have turned philanthropy on its head—why her style of giving actually works

By Sydney Lake

December 2, 2025

Magazine

Anthropic is all in on ‘AI safety’—and that’s helping the $183 billion startup win over big business

By Jeremy Kahn

December 2, 2025

AI

More than 1,000 Amazon employees sign open letter warning the company’s AI ‘will do staggering damage to democracy, our jobs, and the earth’

By Nino Paoli

December 2, 2025

Leadership

How a park bench meeting led to Aflac’s $200 million mascot idea

By Sydney Lake

December 1, 2025

Success

Forget the four-day workweek, Elon Musk predicts you won’t have to work at all in ‘less than 20 years’

By Jessica Coacci

December 1, 2025

Success

At 21, Millie Bobby Brown has a $20 million net worth—as her Stranger Things paychecks dry up, she still uses her parents’ Netflix and shops at Target

By Preston Fore

December 1, 2025

Big Tech

Elon Musk, fresh off securing a $1 trillion pay package, says philanthropy is ‘very hard’

By Sydney Lake

December 1, 2025

Success

Trump’s new tax policies will cut the wealthy’s philanthropy by over $4 billion—and middle-class donors can’t match the donations of MacKenzie Scott

By Emma Burleigh

December 1, 2025

AI

How upcoming business leaders are using AI to prep for high-stakes deal negotiations—and everyday interactions 

By Sage Lazzaro

December 1, 2025

Economy

The K-shaped economy means inflation hurts at the bottom and swells the assets at the top

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press

December 1, 2025

Success

This IBM exec asks job candidates whether they think we are in an AI bubble as a make-or-break interview test—and there’s no right or wrong answer

By Orianna Rosa Royle

December 1, 2025

Commentary

Lyft CEO: This Giving Tuesday, I’m matching every rider’s donation

By David Risher

December 1, 2025

Newsletters

How to handle ‘nepo babies’ in this economic climate

By Kristin Stoller

December 1, 2025

Commentary

Colleges risk getting it backwards on AI and they may be hurting Gen Z job searchers

By Sarah Hoffman

December 1, 2025

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