HR Leaders Will Soon Manage Humans and Agents. Most Aren't Ready. | Tami Rosen

About this episode

Tami Rosen discusses the evolving role of HR leaders in managing a blended workforce of humans and agents, emphasizing the need for strategic HR practices.

The job description for HR leader just changed. Again. Not the version that added culture after COVID. Not the version that added AI literacy after ChatGPT. The version that nobody has written yet — the one where you are responsible for a workforce that is part human, part agent, and entirely your problem to lead effectively. Most HR leaders are not ready for this. Not because they lack intelligence or intention. Because the function has spent decades being handed other people's problems and called a support function for it. And you cannot build the commercial acumen, the technical fluency, and the strategic credibility required to lead in a human-machine era if you are still running nine-month performance review cycles and buying SAP modules to solve problems that didn't need a SAP module. Tami Rosen has led HR at Apple, Goldman Sachs, Atlassian, Luminar Technologies and Pagaya. She is writing a book called Superhuman Companies. Her argument is not gentle: people strategy is business strategy. And the organizations — and the HR leaders — who haven't internalized that are already behind. In this conversation with Ivan Palomino, Tami gets direct about what actually separates…

People in this episode

Host: Ivan Palomino

Guest: Tami Rosen

Topics covered

• HR leadership
• human-machine workforce
• strategic HR
• AI skill development
• Continuous Learning Cycle
• employee participation

Keywords

• HR leaders
• human agents
• business strategy
• AI literacy
• performance reviews
• employee engagement
• workforce management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple, Goldman Sachs, Atlassian, Luminar Technologies, Pagaya

Books & works: Superhuman Companies

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