Learning
L&D and workforce upskilling
The missing link between management development and business outcomes
Executive Take
Most leadership programs fail because they copy content instead of designing backward from specific business KPIs. If your L&D team can't name the Level-4 business metric before launch, the program will not move the numbers.
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How to upskill IT for agentic AI: 7 pathways to success
Executive Take
IT skills are shifting from writing code to checking and governing what AI writes. CIOs who don't rebuild training and roles around review, governance, and judgment will fall behind on AI value capture.
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AMD, Delhi University partner to train 10,000 students in AI
Executive Take
This is AMD building a talent pipeline in India before it needs one, not just a CSR gesture. Expect more chipmakers to strike similar university deals as AI compute skills become scarce.
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Leadership sustainability: Rethinking the intended outcome of leadership development
Executive Take
Most leadership programs stop the moment someone gets promoted. If you only measure readiness before the role, you have no idea whether your leaders can actually hold up under real pressure.
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Spot New Tech Skills Emerging From the Workforce
Executive Take
Skills forecasting matrices are largely guesswork. The real competitive edge comes from managers who notice workarounds on the floor and turn them into company capability before workers walk out the door.
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Why Mentoring Matters More in the AI Era
Executive Take
If AI strips out the repetitive tasks juniors once learned by doing, companies need to redesign career ladders around deliberate mentoring rather than assume skills will develop on their own.
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Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond
Executive Take
This is an early proof point for AI tutoring in low-resource education markets, but leaders evaluating AI-for-learning deployments should press for the actual effect sizes and study methodology before treating it as validated at scale.
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Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity
Executive Take
This is OpenAI positioning itself as the default AI literacy infrastructure provider for education, which matters for HR and learning leaders sourcing future talent pipelines and for policymakers deciding whether to build curricula around a single vendor's ecosystem.
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AI Upskilling at Scale: Bank of America’s Bernard Hampton
Executive Take
Hampton's three-tier model gives L&D leaders a concrete framework for sequencing AI rollout instead of treating every use case as a generic "productivity" initiative, and his internal-fill rate data makes the case that upskilling can substitute for external hiring and headcount cuts at scale.
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