Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan Podcast
1) How Newell Brands Is Operationalizing a High-Performance Culture in the Middle of AI Disruption (CHRO Tracy Platt)
Preparing a global team for a world that changes by the minute can feel like a race against time, especially when 80% of jobs face major shifts by 2030. In this episode, we tackle the challenge of tur...Show More
2) Stanford Just Proved 87% of All Economic Growth Came From Replacing Humans — And AI Is About to Do It Again, Just Slower Than You Think
April 3, 2026: Two major academic papers dropped today alongside fresh labor market data, and together they paint the clearest picture yet of what AI will actually do to the economy and to work. Stanf...Show More
3) Your Company Was Already Too Big. AI Didn't Create the Problem, It Just Ended the Lie.
April 2, 2026: A landmark MIT study out today challenges the AI job apocalypse — and the data lands somewhere more optimistic than the headlines suggest. Then: the "AI washing" debate exposes a harder...Show More
4) Best of Q1 2026: The $1T Market Crash, Citi's Results Mandate, and the AI Revolution at Amazon, Accenture, and Workday
The first quarter of 2026 was not just a collection of headlines. It was a definitive "hard reset" for the global workforce, marking the moment where the gap between legacy systems and the new AI-driv...Show More
5) Claude Mythos Leaked, AI Agents Done Wrong, JPMorgan's New Performance Rules, and the Gen Z Reality Check
March 27, 2026: Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Mythos — its most powerful model ever — and the implications for cybersecurity and enterprise AI go far beyond a product announcement. America's to...Show More
6) The AI Liability Era Begins, Salesforce Freezes Pay, and Why 95% of Job Postings Still Don't Mention AI
March 26, 2026: A California jury found Meta and YouTube liable for deliberately addictive platform design — and the legal framework they used is headed straight for enterprise AI. Salesforce freezes ...Show More
7) 863 Applications Per Hire, 78% of Workers Scared, and Microsoft Blows Up HR
March 25, 2026: Fortune reports that the job market has gotten so broken that people are paying $1,500 a month just to have someone apply to jobs on their behalf — and on average it takes 863 applicat...Show More
8) CFOs Say AI Barely Touched Jobs, College Grads Still Worried, Anthropic Releases Economic Index Report
March 24, 2026: Three major research reports dropped today with a combined picture of where AI and work actually stand right now. A landmark NBER working paper of nearly 750 CFOs finds AI had zero mea...Show More
9) Microsoft's Chief People Officer Reveals the Playbook on Scaling AI Without Losing Trust
The real bottleneck to AI isn't the code; it's our own ego. We're so hooked on being the "expert" that we've forgotten how to be beginners again, and in a world changing this fast, that's a dangerous ...Show More
10) Trump's AI Framework Is Here, Your Retirement Is at Risk, and Engineers Are Quitting for Tokens
March 20, 2026: The White House dropped its national AI legislative framework today — I go through the whole thing, because there's a provision about preempting state AI laws that is one of the most...Show More