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Episode 38 | Nilofer Merchant | Stop Making It All About You: Collective Plays Over Star Players
Nilofer Merchant, ranked among the top 50 most influential management thinkers in the world, joins Amy and Meg to dismantle one of management's most beloved myths: the high-impact player ideology. From launching over 100 products netting $18 billion at companies like Apple and Autodesk, to getting f...
I Drove 3 Hours to See Inside a $3B PEO Acquirer (Here's What I Found)
I drove three hours. No agenda, no idea what I was walking into to spend half a day inside Vensure Employer Services headquarters. What I saw was nothing like what I expected. 105 acquisitions. 8 deals in legal. 50 in the pipeline. $750M in revenue and still raising capital. This episode is the clos...
Ep 114: Redesigning Work and Workforce Strategy for the Agentic Era with Paul Rubenstein
Paul Rubenstein, Chief Evangelist and Talent Strategist at Visier, brings deep expertise in people analytics and workforce strategy to this wide-ranging conversation with Bob Pulver. He introduces a three-curves framework for CHROs navigating AI: the human-machine efficiency frontier, the ROI curve,...
Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - How Oracle's massive layoffs, six conflicting AI studies, and a military targeting error share a common problem.
In this episode of Spilling the Tea on HR Tech, Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson dig into a news week in which the same question keeps surfacing: how much should you trust the data in front of you? Oracle laid off 30,000 employees, and the financial story behind that decision is more complicated th...
Jacob Chase - Rethinking Performance & Pay: The Future is Decentralized
Discover how a bold new approach to evaluating performance could revolutionize your organization. Jacob Chase shares groundbreaking insights on moving away from traditional systems to fully leverage collective intelligence, fairness, and meritocracy. Main Topics Covered: Why current centralized perf...
Improving Succession Planning: Why it Feels like a Fire Drill and How to Fix It
In this episode, Dr. Shari Simpson talks with Megan Leasher, founder of Disruptive Journeys, about the challenges of succession planning in organizations. They discuss how to shift the perception of succession planning from a reactive process to a proactive strategy that involves all levels of the o...






