The Unwritten Rule Every CHRO Learned Is Why HR Leadership Loses the AI Call

About this episode

The episode discusses how traditional habits that establish credibility for CHROs may hinder their effectiveness in a changing work environment influenced by AI.

What if the habit that makes your word carry weight is the reason the AI decisions get made without you? Nobody wrote it down, but twenty years of meetings taught you a rule: you own what you can defend. That rule earned you trust. It also has one setting. Anything you can't prove stops being yours, and right now almost every call worth making about AI and the work can't be proven yet. In this episode, Jackson breaks down how to make the calls you can't prove without betting your credibilit...

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Hosts: Jackson O. Lynch, Scott Morris

Topics covered

• HR leadership
• credibility
• AI in HR
• decision making
• organizational change

Keywords

• CHRO
• credibility
• AI
• decision making
• HR leadership
• organizational change
• work habits

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