I was perusing the agenda for an upcoming HR conference and noticed something entirely typical. The ballroom gets the AI keynote. The large breakout rooms get talent strategy, skills architecture, and something with “future of” in the title. And then,
Send in the Clowns: HR’s Problem with Conference Themes
Somewhere right now, a volunteer conference committee is deciding between “HR Under the Big Top” and “Lights, Camera, HR!” for their HR professional association’s annual event. This means there will either be a logo with a circus tent or a
Last Call for HR: One Diagnostic, Neat
For the better part of two decades, the conversation about technology and HR has run on a single anxious loop: the machines are coming, and they’re coming for us. Every new wave arrived wrapped in the language of disruption, from
Performative AI Takes the Stage
Somewhere this quarter, on a company earnings call you didn’t listen to, a CEO leaned toward the microphone and declared their company to be “AI-first.” Analysts nodded and scribbled notes and the company stock ticked up a respectable amount. Meanwhile,
