This Week in Leadership (Sept 1 - Sept 7)

What should leaders do with their job-hugging employees? Why are so many CFOs leaving in 2025? Plus, how to pick the right training course. Here are some recent articles by Korn Ferry's content team on leadership-related news.

What to Do with All the Job Huggers

New data this week confirms people are staying put in their roles. Should leaders try to develop this newly loyal breed of workers—or nudge some out?

Learning AI: A Second Job?

Half of workers feel that learning the skills needed for AI can feel like a new job. How firms can help workers juggle a critical new demand.

CFO Exits: Domino Effect or Burnout?

Why 2025 is the year top finance execs are leaving at a pace unseen in years. What’s the impact of having a new finance team?

5 Tips for Picking the Right Training Course

Skills-training and certificate programs are expected to balloon into a $3 billion business by decade’s end. Deciding which courses to take is a challenge.

AI: From Uncertainty to Possibility 

Best-selling author Dan Goleman argues that what leaders need now isn’t certainty, but a wider sense of possibility.

Briefings Podcast: Dazed & Confused

Tariffs, an ongoing AI race, multiple wars. Is a new breed of leaders needed to handle not one—but many—major disruptions at once?