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I shared my latest article with my mastermind group, and we all discussed how AI has helped us come full circle.

With CEOs wanting to hyper-optimize, they’ve inadvertently created what I call "phantom fits" for candidates. Some may call it “talent fraud” without realizing we’re in a "bot vs bot" world in hiring now, as potential employees fight to get noticed in a brutal market.

The TL;DR is that we need our leaders to spend time cultivating more human intelligence. This means using AI intelligently so we can spend more time learning how to communicate with each other to create solutions.

As the cool kids say, “This time, my article is personal.”

I open with my son Felix, who, during infancy, had numerous neurosurgeries at BC Children’s Hospital that left him with an intellectual disability. This year, using AI as a tool, he was able to demonstrate neuronormative communication to apply for a role. The rest of the story unfolds alongside the realization by a former AI client that their hiring system needs to become more human.

This article is intended to encourage CEOs to review how hyper-optimization is undermining, sabotaging, and overworking their ability to attract the right talent for their organizations — and what they can do about it, while also using AI.

Many thanks to Chief Executive for running my guest article. Many thanks to my son Felix for allowing me to write this article. And many thanks to James Pycock for his intellect, awareness, and wisdom.

https://chiefexecutive.net/why-the-c-suite-needs-to-reinvest-in-human-hiring-processes/

Why The C-Suite Needs To Reinvest In Human Hiring Processes In a time of AI-assisted phantom fits and miscast hires, organizations need to bring back the personal touch.

Karen McDaniel had me on her show Win-Win Leadership earlier this year. You can listen to the interview via Forbes Books.

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Many thanks, Karen!


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"AfterShock to 2030" turns one the day before Earth Overshoot Day. No cake this year. Instead, here's Herbert Glacier — where I was coaching IEEE-USA engineers the year I wrote the book. (It was cold).

Photo credit: Rachel Nixon

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebrating-discomfort-one-year-aftershock-2030-caroline-stokes-cec-cgrxe

Bradley asked me: “What was in you to write AfterShock?”

I’m afraid my answer is quite long, as his question reminded me of the quest I’ve been on since 2019 to help CEOs adapt to create services and products within planetary boundaries before 2030.

Many thanks to Bradley Hamner for having me on his show, Above the Business.

https://youtu.be/T_Uew8zoN-A?si=R3Sfa-b7kG0HeMCL&t=1770

Leading Through the AI Shift with Caroline Stokes One CEO dismissed an idea his AI tool surfaced. A week later, his c...

More than 300,000 people have now been evacuated because of wildfires in France and Spain.

I won't lecture you on the science or the impact this will have on every single person. Reactions to the fires will likely fall into two camps: climate shock, grief and anger, or holidaymakers just trying to get their money back from insurers for the disruption.

This is akin to Clay Christensen's classic technology disruption theory. Climate disruption is here right now, and it's time for CEOs to stand up and ask whether the strategy they're working with is an AI add-on for efficiency or a reinvention of the leadership systems that need to be put in place for an unstable world.

This is why I wrote "AfterShock to 2030: A CEO's Guide to Reinvention in the Age of AI, Climate, and Societal Collapse" (available digitally on Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Noble to avoid trees being cut down).

Hope that you can bring the climate chair to the boardroom and that your strategy conversations go beyond ESG numbers. It's important to genuinely look at the problem by seeing a new way of doing business, and building products and services that avoid harming us. I hate to say it, because we are harming ourselves.

Take a look at the recent Global Footprint Network report on Earth Overshoot Day, showing we are using up Earth's resources earlier and earlier each year.

Don't look to government — customers are looking to you.

Photo: Maximilien Lamy/AFP. Read the article on the wildfires at the link in the comments.

Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey talked with me in London on the hottest day of the year in England, while I was there for both London Climate Action Week and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) conference.

Despite my brain literally melting and the subject matter being very serious, we had a lot of fun in this interview.

https://nell3d.substack.com/p/certainty-is-a-form-of-self-abuse

Certainty Is a Form of Self-Abuse Plus: why the old paradigm is "dead dead". And why she's optimistic anyway. Kicking off Optimism Month with a Subtraction Session with Caroline Stokes.

In a time of crisis, it's tempting to add just one more thing — another initiative, or another tool. Instead, I urge you to do the opposite, and STOP.

Letting go of what no longer serves opens up the energy, creativity and joy you need to navigate these challenging times.

Read more about why I suggest you emphasize subtraction over addition in this Forbes article by Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey.

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