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A weekly column and podcast on the remote, hybrid, and AI-driven future of work. By FlexOS founder Daan van Rossum.
AI Promises Speed, But Leaves Debt Behind
AI boosts speed but piles up hidden debts: cognitive shortcuts that weaken skills, technical fragility that slows systems, and organizational failures that block ROI. Leaders must manage debt to secure long-term value.
AI Promises Speed, But Leaves Debt Behind
AI boosts speed but piles up hidden debts: cognitive shortcuts that weaken skills, technical fragility that slows systems, and organizational failures that block ROI. Leaders must manage debt to secure long-term value.
AI Promises Speed, But Leaves Debt Behind
AI boosts speed but piles up hidden debts: cognitive shortcuts that weaken skills, technical fragility that slows systems, and organizational failures that block ROI. Leaders must manage debt to secure long-term value.
AI Promises Speed, But Leaves Debt Behind
AI boosts speed but piles up hidden debts: cognitive shortcuts that weaken skills, technical fragility that slows systems, and organizational failures that block ROI. Leaders must manage debt to secure long-term value.
Why Workers Are Hugging Their Jobs
Workers are “job hugging,” clinging to roles amid uncertainty. It feels safe but risks wage and career stagnation. Leaders can flip the pause into growth by offering projects, feedback, and meaning.
Why Workers Are Hugging Their Jobs
Workers are “job hugging,” clinging to roles amid uncertainty. It feels safe but risks wage and career stagnation. Leaders can flip the pause into growth by offering projects, feedback, and meaning.
Duolingo CEO Defends Entry-Level Jobs
Duolingo's CEO is doubling down on early talent, even as AI reshapes work. Young grads bring fresh ideas, grow fast with AI, and deserve the chance to build the future—not be left out of it.
Duolingo CEO Defends Entry-Level Jobs
Duolingo's CEO is doubling down on early talent, even as AI reshapes work. Young grads bring fresh ideas, grow fast with AI, and deserve the chance to build the future—not be left out of it.
Leadership Is Reaching a Breaking Point
Tracy Brower unpacks how AI is reshaping identity, leadership, trust, and culture—and why the future belongs to organizations that support human connection, co-creation, and growth alongside emerging tech.
Leadership Is Reaching a Breaking Point
Tracy Brower unpacks how AI is reshaping identity, leadership, trust, and culture—and why the future belongs to organizations that support human connection, co-creation, and growth alongside emerging tech.
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Dr. Tracy Brower: Leadership Is Reaching a Breaking Point
Tracy Brower unpacks how AI is reshaping identity, leadership, trust, and culture—and why the future belongs to organizations that support human connection, co-creation, and growth alongside emerging tech.
Dr. Tracy Brower: Leadership Is Reaching a Breaking Point
Tracy Brower unpacks how AI is reshaping identity, leadership, trust, and culture—and why the future belongs to organizations that support human connection, co-creation, and growth alongside emerging tech.
Microsoft Reveals Where AI Works Best
Microsoft’s study shows generative AI eating mid-skill, text-based tasks. Degrees offer little shield as AI drafts, explains, and advises while design and data work lag. Managers must repurpose saved hours.
Microsoft Reveals Where AI Works Best
Microsoft’s study shows generative AI eating mid-skill, text-based tasks. Degrees offer little shield as AI drafts, explains, and advises while design and data work lag. Managers must repurpose saved hours.
How America Plans to Win the AI Race
The White House unveils a sweeping AI strategy focused on deregulation, infrastructure, and global dominance, signaling a bold shift in how the U.S. plans to lead the AI race.
How America Plans to Win the AI Race
The White House unveils a sweeping AI strategy focused on deregulation, infrastructure, and global dominance, signaling a bold shift in how the U.S. plans to lead the AI race.
America’s AI Action Plan to Win the Race
The White House unveils a sweeping AI strategy focused on deregulation, infrastructure, and global dominance, signaling a bold shift in how the U.S. plans to lead the AI race.
America’s AI Action Plan to Win the Race
The White House unveils a sweeping AI strategy focused on deregulation, infrastructure, and global dominance, signaling a bold shift in how the U.S. plans to lead the AI race.
The Gen Z Stare: A Management Clue
The Gen Z stare isn’t disengagement — it’s a cultural cue. Leaders must shift from judgment to curiosity, adapting communication and support to build trust with the generation redefining work.
The Gen Z Stare: A Management Clue
The Gen Z stare isn’t disengagement — it’s a cultural cue. Leaders must shift from judgment to curiosity, adapting communication and support to build trust with the generation redefining work.
Support Your Leaders, Before They Break
Climbing the ladder comes with hidden costs. SHRM reveals 5 key trade-offs leaders face—from long hours to lost well-being—and what employers must do now to build sustainable, supported leadership at every level.
Support Your Leaders, Before They Break
Climbing the ladder comes with hidden costs. SHRM reveals 5 key trade-offs leaders face—from long hours to lost well-being—and what employers must do now to build sustainable, supported leadership at every level.
A Summer for Leaders to Relearn Joy
Burnout steals joy quietly. Most feel just 1 joyful hour a day. This summer, reset. Reconnect with what energizes you—and help your team do the same. Joy is not rare, just overlooked.
A Summer for Leaders to Relearn Joy
Burnout steals joy quietly. Most feel just 1 joyful hour a day. This summer, reset. Reconnect with what energizes you—and help your team do the same. Joy is not rare, just overlooked.
AI Is Creating Jobs We Never Imagined
AI may take jobs—but it will invent new ones. Robert Capps maps future roles built on trust, integration, and taste. From AI auditors to world designers, human creativity becomes the edge.
AI Is Creating Jobs We Never Imagined
AI may take jobs—but it will invent new ones. Robert Capps maps future roles built on trust, integration, and taste. From AI auditors to world designers, human creativity becomes the edge.
What Comes After the Replacement Talk? New Jobs
AI may take jobs—but it will invent new ones. Robert Capps maps future roles built on trust, integration, and taste. From AI auditors to world designers, human creativity becomes the edge.
What Comes After the Replacement Talk? New Jobs
AI may take jobs—but it will invent new ones. Robert Capps maps future roles built on trust, integration, and taste. From AI auditors to world designers, human creativity becomes the edge.
Vibe Teaming: The AI Collaboration Worth Trying
Vibe teaming invites AI into team convos from the start—co-creating drafts, freeing humans to think. It’s not just about tools, but reshaping how leaders guide collaboration.
Vibe Teaming: The AI Collaboration Worth Trying
Vibe teaming invites AI into team convos from the start—co-creating drafts, freeing humans to think. It’s not just about tools, but reshaping how leaders guide collaboration.
HR's New Model: Stop Serving, Start Building Products
HR as a product team, building end-to-end, user-centered solutions with the same mindset as tech.
HR's New Model: Stop Serving, Start Building Products
HR as a product team, building end-to-end, user-centered solutions with the same mindset as tech.
Volker Jacobs: "To Flatten the Trough, HR Must Become the Product Team"
Volker Jacobs says HR must become a product team—embedding AI, redesigning roles around users, and building trust through iterative transformation to flatten the trough of disillusionment.
Volker Jacobs: "To Flatten the Trough, HR Must Become the Product Team"
Volker Jacobs says HR must become a product team—embedding AI, redesigning roles around users, and building trust through iterative transformation to flatten the trough of disillusionment.
DEI Means Designing Systems for Meritocracy
DEI hasn’t failed—it’s been misunderstood. Denise Brouder reframes it as systems design, not politics, where fairness, leadership, and small acts drive lasting culture change.
DEI Means Designing Systems for Meritocracy
DEI hasn’t failed—it’s been misunderstood. Denise Brouder reframes it as systems design, not politics, where fairness, leadership, and small acts drive lasting culture change.
Denise Brouder: DEI hasn’t failed, but it has lost its shared understanding
Denise Brouder reframes DEI as a systems challenge, rooted in fairness, not politics, and driven by managers, small acts, and clear, inclusive principles at work.
Denise Brouder: DEI hasn’t failed, but it has lost its shared understanding
Denise Brouder reframes DEI as a systems challenge, rooted in fairness, not politics, and driven by managers, small acts, and clear, inclusive principles at work.
Simon Sinek: AI Can't Struggle For You
Simon Sinek urges leaders to protect human traits AI can't replicate—courage, empathy, struggle, and connection—reminding us that true leadership means embracing imperfection, not avoiding it.
Simon Sinek: AI Can't Struggle For You
Simon Sinek urges leaders to protect human traits AI can't replicate—courage, empathy, struggle, and connection—reminding us that true leadership means embracing imperfection, not avoiding it.
Dave Ulrich: 4Ps That Make HR Matter
Dave Ulrich and David Green reveal why HR must shift from tasks to outcomes—using "so that" to link every initiative to customer, investor, and business value. A mindset reset for modern HR.
Dave Ulrich: 4Ps That Make HR Matter
Dave Ulrich and David Green reveal why HR must shift from tasks to outcomes—using "so that" to link every initiative to customer, investor, and business value. A mindset reset for modern HR.
Moderna Merges HR & IT
Moderna merged HR and IT under one leader to align talent and tech for AI readiness—signaling a shift from static roles to dynamic flows of work.
Moderna Merges HR & IT
Moderna merged HR and IT under one leader to align talent and tech for AI readiness—signaling a shift from static roles to dynamic flows of work.
Moderna Merges HR & IT: Chief People & Digital Technology manages 3,000 AI's and 5,800 humans
Moderna merged HR and IT under one leader to align talent and tech for AI readiness—signaling a shift from static roles to dynamic flows of work.
Moderna Merges HR & IT: Chief People & Digital Technology manages 3,000 AI's and 5,800 humans
Moderna merged HR and IT under one leader to align talent and tech for AI readiness—signaling a shift from static roles to dynamic flows of work.
Remote Work: From Debate to Design, Finally
Remote work has moved past debate. At Running Remote 2025, leaders shared how to design for clarity, trust, and real impact—across AI, inclusion, leadership, and culture.
Remote Work: From Debate to Design, Finally
Remote work has moved past debate. At Running Remote 2025, leaders shared how to design for clarity, trust, and real impact—across AI, inclusion, leadership, and culture.
Insights from Running Remote 2025: No More Debates, Only Design
Remote work has moved past debate. At Running Remote 2025, leaders shared how to design for clarity, trust, and real impact—across AI, inclusion, leadership, and culture.
Insights from Running Remote 2025: No More Debates, Only Design
Remote work has moved past debate. At Running Remote 2025, leaders shared how to design for clarity, trust, and real impact—across AI, inclusion, leadership, and culture.
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