This Week in Leadership (Aug 18 - Aug 24)

Would you be willing to have AI as a boss? Plus, how to deal with tough professional feedback.

August 22, 2025

Which C-suite role has the shortest job tenure? How many employees would be willing to accept having AI as their boss? Plus, what to do when you get tough professional feedback. Here are some recent articles by Korn Ferry's content team on leadership-related news.

Will ‘Moderate’ Pay Raises Be Enough?

Firms are planning to give smaller but ‘moderate’ pay raises than they handed out a few years ago. How firms can best motivate staffers expecting more.

The C-Suite Executives Watching Their Backs

Chief commercial and revenue officers are being replaced left and right this year. Why are firms so quick to swap out the person most responsible for top-line growth?

Taking Orders... From AI?

A new study finds people are surprisingly fine having AI as their coworker—but not as their boss. Why that needs to change.

Turning Tough Feedback into Action: 4 Ways

With managers under increasing pressure to boost productivity, employees are facing tougher performance reviews.

What’s Your Team’s Emotional Intelligence?

Best-selling author Dan Goleman says that even a group of self-aware, organizationally attuned colleagues can make a poor team.

Board Focus: Risky Business

Corporate risk has shot up 63%, while leadership confidence in handling it has fallen dramatically, according to a new Korn Ferry poll of CEOs and directors.