Your Job Is Not Your Family Your job is not your family. This is settled law. I’ve been writing some version of this sentence since 2004: your job is not your family. I wrote it on old HR blogs before anyone called them Substacks. I wrote it in “Betting On You.” I’ll probably write it…
Steal My Claude Setup by Laurie Ruettimann Lots of drama over the way companies like Anthropic and OpenAI will begin adding an invisible, digital watermark to the work their bots create for you. You can read about it here. Allegedly, there’s no watermark if an LLM just lightly edits your work. But if it writes…
Every HR leader wants to be strategically involved in creating an AI playbook for their organization. But where do you start when you wonder, “What is AI? LLMs? GenAI? What are AI agents? How do I write a policy for all this? Training? What about governance?” You’re not the only one asking those questions. Gaining…
How do I feel about Zionism and Anti-Zionism? by Laurie Ruettimann I went to my synagogue on a weeknight and took a Jewish storytelling class where I explored my relationship to Israel. You’re probably like, “What? Huh? What’s that all about?” Me too. I am naturally suspicious of formal religion, including my own. When it…
Laurie joined Meg Bear and Amy Wilson on their podcast, the Meg & Amy Show, for a conversation about work, money, and what’s actually breaking people right now. Much of it traces back to a period earlier in her career when she realized that if she wanted a different outcome, she had to make different…
Lisa Sterling said “absolutely not” when she was first asked to take a Chief People Officer role. Not because she didn’t care about people, but because everything she believed about organizational performance was at odds with what HR was supposed to be. She took the job anyway, with one instruction: get rid of all of…
David Barrett grew up watching his father make gravestones, run a late-night fast-food joint, and deal in licensed firearms out of the same rural Irish town. He called it “food-to-grave services.” What David took from it was: there are a lot of ways to make a living, and the best ones involve getting out and…
Twenty-six years in benefits gives you a particular kind of clarity. Rae Shanahan knows what the industry got right, and she’s direct about what it got wrong. Now Chief Strategy Officer at Businessolver, she comes to this conversation with research and the research tells a story most HR teams aren’t ready to hear. Businessolver’s annual…
Gemma Versace is Chief Client Officer at X-Team, where she works with organizations navigating the gap between what their AI talent strategy looks like on paper and what it looks like in practice. She comes to this conversation with research, and the research tells a story most organizations aren’t ready to hear. X-Team surveyed over…
Tameka Vasquez grew up in tech, absorbed the ethos of moving fast and breaking things, and assumed that was just how work operated. It took years of consulting outside the industry, with leaders in finance, real estate, and manufacturing, to show her how rare that tolerance actually was. Most leaders, she found, can handle “change”…
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