While nearly a quarter of employers say they consider AI fluency an unrewarded baseline skill, the majority of workers disagree. More than half of the employees surveyed by compensation software company Payscale said they should earn more for developing AI skills, according to a recent report.
Industrial businesses should move beyond basic data collection and adopt financial-style decarbonisation analysis for evaluating environmental metrics. DuPont’s Carbon Fluency Framework evaluates greenhouse gas metrics using different factors such as product mass, revenue and unit margin. This methodology lets sustainability teams assess product footprints from multiple perspectives, rather than viewing emissions as standalone figures.
A recent exchange on LinkedIn involved a senior leader at McKinsey questioning whether the glass cliff even exists for female leaders at struggling companies. Julia Carreon didn’t anticipate that a LinkedIn post promoting her new book would spark an exchange that made a persuasive case for why she wrote the book in the first place.
I’ve written before about how good leaders give effective feedback when the stakes are high. That article articulates a method for structuring feedback to ensure you effectively deliver the content of your message so that it can be heard and so that it can actually help change behavior going forward.
Important decisions benefit from genuinely different perspectives. The job is not to eliminate bias, which is impossible, nor is it necessarily to reach consensus. Too much consensus can produce what I sometimes call ‘consenseless’: a conclusion sufficiently diluted for everyone to accept and no one particularly to believe.
