Semafor

The World of Work: The State of Global Workplace | Semafor Events

80% of all of the world's workers have quietly quit. And by the way, it's not their fault. The problem is not work. The problem that causes people to quietly quit is the work place.

Book of the Day

Revisiting the story of the American Revolution with Rick Atkinson

A people not used to being forced to do things will not be drove. They must be led. And he is a leader and um in the army that he's commanding the army we have today actually that's a fairly critical insight that he's got and a recognition that this is the essence of leadership.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

Most people think that the way you build a company is you hire great people and then you tell them what to do. But the most successful companies I've seen are ones where you hire great people and then you create the conditions for them to tell you what to do.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Dara Khosrowshahi - Uber's Bet on AVs, AI, and Building a Super-App - [Invest Like the Best, EP.476]

The most important signal that I look for is: are the best people in the world trying to work for us? And are we retaining the best people in the world? Because if we are, we're going to be okay. If we aren't, we have a problem.

Semafor

Putting Employees at the Center with BCG's Kristy R. Ellmer at Semafor World Economy

When we look at the gap, what we recognize is a lot of the C-suite have the ability to shape the transformation or the change. And they have a lot to gain from it typically. So there's sort of built-in incentive for them to be excited about change and historically they've usually done well in change. That's how they've gotten to where they have. When you look at sort of the employee base, they have a lot less agency in it. So they aren't necessarily deciding on the change or part of the process. They're sort of the receivers of it. And anytime we don't have agency then we start to sort of buy in less to the change.

The Prof G Pod

Scott Answers: Is AI Replacing Middle Management? | Office Hours

Management is an ability to soften the chaos created by leaders. They're the ones that actually remember why this actual [ __ ] company works.

Office Hours

Scott Answers: Is AI Replacing Middle Management? | Office Hours

Management is an ability to soften the chaos created by leaders. The notion that your AI is going to bring everybody in and they're not going to need to have contact with anybody else and the AI will manage them, tell them what to do, and at the end of the year give them their performance review and a bonus. Even if that was possible, which I don't think it is, it's a nihilistic, [ __ ] up vision of the world.