Agentic AI Is a Board-Level Question. Corporate boards have spent decades asking whether companies are creating shareholder value. Agentic AI requires them to ask another question: what kind of workplace are we creating in the process? Latest on Substack: dansmolen.substack.com/p/agentic-ai...

The Skills AI Can't Automate Begin at the Elementary School Inventors Fair. Long before we teach children to master technology, we should be teaching them to notice problems worth solving. My thoughts on Substack: dansmolen.substack.com/p/the-skills...

Companies that win in the AI Age won't simply get more work from people. They'll build something called Productive Capacity that yields better outcomes for people in the modern workplace. Read about it in my latest Substack: dansmolen.substack.com/p/ai-didnt-j...

We Didn't Need Perfection. We Needed to Keep Getting Better. Charles Glassman, MD reminds us that the pursuit of perfection may be making us sick. The workplace has spent more than a century rewarding exactly that pursuit. Read my Substack for a deeper dive: dansmolen.substack.com/p/we-didnt-n...

AI Doesn't Need More Answers. It Needs Better Questions. What if Sunday School prepared us for the age of agentic AI better than we realized? I explore this in my latest Substack. Subscribe so you don't miss future discussions like this one. LINK--> dansmolen.substack.com/p/ai-doesnt-...

The Generation That Was Told Never to Fall Behind. Gen Z mastered the education to career system we built for them, then AI changed the rules. It's time for a fundamental rethinking. My latest on Substack: dansmolen.substack.com/p/the-genera...

AI Didn't Make Intelligence Obsolete, It Made Discernment Priceless. In my latest Substack, why artificial intelligence hasn't diminished the value of human intelligence, but rather changed what the marketplace rewards most. LINK: dansmolen.substack.com/p/ai-didnt-m...

First, he fired the bipartisan supported Commissioner of Labor Statistics. Then today, he instructed the Commerce Department to stage a do-over of the 2020 Census. LEFT, RIGHT, or CENTER: if you are not now hair-on-fire outraged then you are not paying attention! h/t The Hill

The average American has three friends.

“The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason..."

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth today after a 9-months-long delay. Hoping this isn't what they see after the hatch opens...

How it's going in the Federal workplace as rendered by Microsoft Copilot/DALL.E #forkintheroad #fedworkforce

“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder." President John F. Kennedy address before Canadian Parliament 5/17/1961

Today is #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay. And this is a reminder that the #Holocaust started in the #workplace. Remember, never forget, and be kind. Image credit: Yad Vashem International Holocaust Memorial

Why don't we celebrate failure as much as we do success? 3M became a major brand because it commercializes the stuff that blows up in the lab. Celebrating and learning from failed workplace experiments helps teams to explore new ideas that foster trust and positive workplace culture.

With the LA fires displacing 100k+ people from home and workplace, and thousands more still displaced from hurricane flooding in the Southeast US, it seemed only appropriate to prompt Microsoft Copilot to render an image of an old school executive and a polar bear sharing an Arctic ice floe.

How have you started 2025? If you were like my daughter and her fiancé then the new year started in the kitchen; I know from her text message that they've prepared homemade blueberry and lime jam. Whatever your 2025 jam happens to be, I hope that it symbolizes your creativity and lust for life.

WTF has happened to MSM outlets? Here, on The Exchange, CNBC tees up a serious segment to discuss the new administration’s ideas for the U.S. to take over Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone. This is 4th Estate Malpractice!

What was the-most-talked-about workplace story of 2024? It wasn't RTO. Or hybrid. Or DOGE. According to the World Economic Forum it was the rise of generative AI and its impact on workplace productivity and job roles.

From 2001 through present, Gallup has tracked consumer healthcare quality indicators. Key insight: 44 pct of tracking survey respondents currently think that their healthcare quality is excellent or good. (That's not good.) Image credit: Gallup

Are keeping routines and experiencing "micro-moments" key to enjoying workplace holiday time happiness? My friend and recent guest on the WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT? LIVE SHOW, happiness expert Jessica Weiss, offers up key insight. Link in comments.

About to board Amtrak following a future of work and workplace experts gathering. Union Station, New Haven, Conn. 12/5/2024 4:37pm

Are you thinking about doing a side-hustle? More and more career professionals are designing and establishing their work fit through side-hustles so that work becomes a wonderful part of their day doing other wonderful things. Photo credit: Dan Smolen 12/2/2024

Early last Wednesday morning, while staying overnight in a Midtown Manhattan hotel, I was startled awake by blaring sirens. Moments earlier, about ten short blocks north of my location, the CEO of United Healthcare was gunned down outside the doors of the New York Hilton.

Latest workplace disengagement level is 77 percent; 51 percent of workers are actively seeking new jobs. Graph: Gallup

What a thrill to find my friend and live show guest Julie Winkle Giulioni’s book, “Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go,” on display at Hudson News in Washington, DC’s Union Station! Julie is a globally recognized employee experience expert.

Baby won't stay "fun sized" forever. This is a fair representation of your future floofinator!

Will 2025 Be the Year of the Side Hustle? Earlier this fall, LinkedIn News surveyed over 8,000 of its members to determine how many of us have taken on a side-hustle to either supplement our income, or, to expand our career and avocational horizons. (See graphic.)

Yesterday morning, my helper watched the turkey as it roasted. You can see the reflection of his face in the oven glass.