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Hosted by Steve Cadigan · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 46 episodes
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Most leaders are asking the wrong question about AI. Workquake Weekly is where we find the right one. Each week, Steve Cadigan, LinkedIn's founding CHRO and author of Workquake, breaks down what's actually happening at the intersection of AI, talent, and organizational transformation. Not hype. Not fear. The patterns that separate companies building lasting competitive advantage from those chasing a mirage. Ten minutes. One insight. Every week.For more on Steve visit stevecadigan.com
Steve Cadigan hosts Workquake Weekly, a business show with 46 episodes published.
Here's a Spotify-ready description: 75% of AI Strategies Are for Show. Is Yours? A former Lululemon CIO just said the quiet part out loud — and Steve thinks every executive needs to hear it. This week, Steve digs into Ju
Amazon Just Proved Nobody Has AI Figured Out Business Insider dropped a story this week that might be the most important workplace story of 2026 — and it's not about what Amazon is building with AI. It's about what they'
There's a question I ask before I take on any new client: does leadership already know what's broken, or are they hoping I'll discover it so they don't have to say it out loud themselves? If the answer is the second one,
The AI Jobs Story Nobody Is Telling Everyone is afraid AI is coming for the jobs. But what if we've been afraid of the wrong number? New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Bank of England, and the Bun
For two years, we've blamed AI for the disappearance of entry-level jobs. But what if that story was never true? In this solo episode, Steve digs into new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — a source wit
A new PwC analysis of nearly a billion job postings found something hard to ignore: when a role asks for AI skills, it pays about 56% more than the identical role that doesn't — and that premium has doubled in a single y
The Megamanager Era: What Happens When We Stretch Managers Too Thin The average U.S. manager now has 12.1 direct reports — up nearly 50% in just twelve years. Meta is running new teams at 50-to-1. Nvidia's Jensen Huang f
Three headlines from this week in work, and the pattern connecting them. Steve breaks down: why dropping degree requirements barely moved the needle on who actually gets hired (fewer than 1 in 700 hires affected), why 55
Loyalty Is a Broken Contract… And It’s Time to Stop Pretending Otherwise What if the biggest misunderstanding in the workplace today isn’t about AI, remote work, or even talent shortages… but about loyalty? In this episo
Oracle cut 30,000 people last week. At 6 AM. Via email. No manager conversation. No handoff. Just: you're done, your access is revoked. Steve has been through dozens of staff reductions in his career — and this one hit d
This week on Workquake Weekly, Steve unpacks new research from Harvard Business Review that brings real data to one of the biggest debates in the future of work… are jobs being replaced by AI, or reshaped by it? The answ
Is AI destroying jobs, enriching them, or doing a bit of both? In this episode of Workquake Weekly, Steve Cadigan explores a new research tool released by AI company Anthropic designed to detect when AI is displacing wor
This week, Steve Cadigan tackles the emotional rollercoaster around AI, flipping the script from fear and FOMO to understanding and real confidence. You’ll learn: Why panic isn’t the answer—and what questions leaders sho
This week, Steve digs into a startling The Wall Street Journal report revealing that, for many Americans, healthcare expenses are now outpacing mortgage payments. Drawing on his own experience as an independent business
A landmark trial in Los Angeles is testing a hard question: did social media product design cause real harm, especially for younger users? This isn’t a hearing. It’s a courtroom, with jurors and evidence, focused less on
Feeling 2026 fatigue? You are not alone. In this episode, Steve digs into the prediction trap so many leaders are stuck in right now, chasing benchmarks and waiting for a safe best practice to appear. In a supersonic wor
Email promised speed and delivered FOMO. In this episode, Steve reacts to Google’s deeper AI features in Gmail, calls out the irony of tech solving a problem it helped create, and reframes the real win of AI: buying back
Rethinking New Year’s Resolutions New Year’s resolutions rarely stick because they start with wishes, not reality. In this episode, Steve Cadigan shares a simple, honest alternative he learned from Tim Ferriss, the Past
What can the NBA teach us about modern leadership? In this fast, practical episode, Steve riffs on a Wall Street Journal piece about Chris Paul’s retirement and the fading era of the classic “floor general.” On the court
Most AI headlines still shout about job loss. This week, I unpack McKinsey’s new State of AI report and the story is very different. Yes, many companies are experimenting, piloting, and playing. Only a small fraction are
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