By Eli Amdur There’s much to do and little time to do it. Longshoremen’s big concerns The port workers’ strike that shut down our Eastern seaboard and Gulf coast ports has been temporarily suspended. The new do-or-die date is January 15, a fleetingly short 101 days away. “Don’t let robots take my job.” Aside from…
Leadership exists on three levels: personal, organizational, and global – and we achieve them in that order. We cannot lead others unless we first lead our own lives with some sense of order, perspective, connectedness, and purpose. That axiom underpinned all my teaching (two graduate leadership courses, 15 years) and leadership advisory (corporate across 25…
“Do I really need a résumé anymore?” With AI powering more and more applicant tracking systems (ATSs), with LinkedIn approaching one billion users, and with public records becoming increasingly ubiquitous and accessible, that question of résumé relevance is rolling off the lips of an alarming number of job seekers on a rapidly increasing basis. Says…
Why We Aren’t Getting The AI Governance Thing Right (Yet) By Eli Amdur Now that we’re up to our necks in alligators – namely, the conflict between innovation and governance in AI – we’re starting to see why we haven’t gotten it right – or even appear to be sufficiently down that path. The answer…
B y Eli Amdur Leadership exists on three levels: personal, organizational, and global – and we achieve them in that order. We cannot lead others unless we first lead our own lives with some sense of order, perspective, connectedness, and purpose. That axiom underpinned all my teaching (two graduate leadership courses, 15 years) and leadership…
By Eli Amdur A thousand years from now, historians, cultural anthropologists and linguists will look back on the beginning of this millennium and wonder about a curiously strange phenomenon. What, they will ask, happened to adjectives? Well, at least what happened to all but two adjectives? It appears that – with a large portion of…
It Was One Of The Biggest Events In Business History By Eli Amdur It happened on August 12, 1981. The future had arrived. On that date – 43 years ago this week – IBM introduced its personal computer: the 5150. It wasn’t the first – Tandy, Commodore, and Apple were already at the forefront and…
As dawn breaks on the first full day of freedom for Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Paul Whelan, it is appropriate for us to do more than cheer. Yes, we all have reason to celebrate, and the rush we all felt when we learned of their liberation must resound and echo for a long time….
10 Steps To Make Your Company AI-Ready By Eli Amdur Everybody agrees. We must embrace and transition to AI. So why are so many organizations and individuals behind the curve on making this transition? As an independent career and executive coach for the past 27 years, I think the answer lies in this riddle. Question:…
By Eli Amdur Applicant Tracking Systems. Everybody hates them, including most of the people who use them to hire everybody else. They’re counterintuitive, they prevent interpersonal interaction, and nobody can say how many good hires weren’t made as a result. But they’ve outlasted our resistance, and we live with them, much to our chagrin. As…