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Our look at pressing problems and solutions for board directors.
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Weekly leadership messages from our CEO Gary Burnison, capturing the mood and the moment with storytelling and insights.
One Step Forward?
Why companies have become more aggressive both about spending and hiring. 'It's opening up.'
AI Is Reading Your Emotions… at Work
AI that can read people’s emotions is showing up in places employees may not expect. Could monitoring employees be going too far?
The UK’s Boomer Quagmire
Older workers are dropping out of the workforce at a sharp rate. Why that should worry corporate leaders.
June 10, 2026
June 9, 2026
Health insurance companies are leaving a key marketplace in droves. Will part-time workers and contractors run for the hills?
What is dark empathy, and is your manager guilty of it? We check into some little-known but important lapses in management.
More firms are asking employees to both manage teams and be a colleague. Here’s how to handle the dual role.
June 8, 2026
June 3, 2026
A recent report finds that the World Cup—starting next week—will cost at least $4.5 billion in lost productivity. What other events are sidelining workers?
The major AI companies have recently raised user prices significantly. Will that impact how much businesses use them?
March 17, 2026
Robots might be poised for their own ChatGPT moment. But will leaders be ready?
March 16, 2026
A surprising two-thirds of job candidates favor firms that use AI instead of humans to determine pay. Why they think machines will be fairer.
Despite the importance of such roles, AI-skilled workers are commanding only a 5% to 15% pay premium, a new Korn Ferry survey finds. Will this change?
March 11, 2026
As geopolitical fighting continues, CEOs are getting drawn into the fray on earnings calls. Their words have a big impact on performance, a Korn Ferry study finds.
A new Korn Ferry study finds that how a CEO talks on earnings calls can lead to a 12% stock bump... or a 15% decline. What makes the difference?
Flexible, curious, and adaptive workers get promoted faster, but only 15% of them globally are particularly agile at work. How to get better so your boss notices.
March 10, 2026
With oil prices spiking, managers may get caught in the middle over the cost of RTO policies.
With a key deadline approaching for disclosing salary ranges, firms will need to overhaul pay plans to “have a good story to tell.”
For hiring managers, a lack of strong people skills among younger workers is starting to outweigh digital acumen. Will older candidates step up?
March 9, 2026
AI could be a fantastic tool, but best-selling author Dan Goleman worries that business leaders are expecting it to solve problems that only humans can fix.
March 6, 2026
The new war poses a challenging set of questions for corporate leaders. Plus, how to tailor your work skills to what firms want.
March 4, 2026
Whether leaders realize it or not, the new war poses numerous under-the-radar questions.
