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A McKinsey Partner Says Cutting Junior Hires Is a 5-Year Mistake (opens the original)
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Six weeks after naming the three things AI reprices inside organizations (judgment, translation and orchestration), McKinsey partner came back to ARK Strategy to test that thesis against a September full of contrary signals: a Fed rate hike into “strong productivity growth,” a jobs report three times the forecast, and a frontier lab marketing its model’s judgment by name.Her verdict: the thesis holds. Models make the routine calls, but deciding which calls are consequential is still a human, ent
"I Don't Even Work Here" Is the Most Powerful Sentence I Say at Work (opens the original)
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That Time I Designed a Voluntary Separation Program: What I Learned Working for the CHRO (opens the original)
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ARK Strategy is a reader-supported publication. Paid subscribers get one playbook a month, a specific problem solved the way I’d solve it for a consulting client, plus a quarterly open thread. Founding members ($400/yr) get two 45-minute sessions a year plus async email access, because I decline nearly every other 1:1 request I receive. Legal Disclaimer: This essay is a personal reflection based on real experiences, adapted and anonymized to protect the confidentiality of individuals, companies,
[From the Archive] What Books Did Charlie Munger Recommend? Start With These 7 (opens the original)
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My Brain Deleted August. It Kept One Sunday in Switzerland. (opens the original)
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This past Sunday, my husband Gregg and I got on a small green train in Switzerland, and that train did something New York City subway cars rarely do: it ascended a mountain, via a rack railway that’s been grinding tourists and locals alike from the village below to the summit at 1,806 meters above sea level (~5,925 feet), with a cog beneath the carriage grinding against a toothed rail, because an ordinary wheel would simply throw its hands up in defeat. And at terminus of that train’s track, the
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