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Welcome to Workquake Weekly with Steve Cadigan — future-of-work expert, LinkedIn’s first CHRO, and author of Workquake. Each week, Steve breaks down the biggest trends reshaping how we work, lead, and grow.
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75% of AI Strategies Are for Show. Is Yours? (opens the original)
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Here's a Spotify-ready description: 75% of AI Strategies Are for Show. Is Yours? A former Lululemon CIO just said the quiet part out loud — and Steve thinks every executive needs to hear it. This week, Steve digs into Julie Averill's New York Times opinion piece on what's actually happening with AI inside real companies. Averill spent eight years as CIO at Lululemon and thirty years in tech before that, so this isn't sideline commentary. It's someone who took the vendor meetings, ran the pilots,
Nobody has the AI Playbook. Not even Amazon. (opens the original)
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Amazon Just Proved Nobody Has AI Figured Out Business Insider dropped a story this week that might be the most important workplace story of 2026 — and it's not about what Amazon is building with AI. It's about what they're being forced to tear down. Amazon is winding down its flagship AI models, shutting its long-term AI research lab, and laying off some of the most sought-after technical talent in the company — the same team they created a special pay scale just to hire. All of this, less than
When the Work Gets Hard, You Want a Human You Trust. Even the AI Giants Know It. (opens the original)
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There's a question I ask before I take on any new client: does leadership already know what's broken, or are they hoping I'll discover it so they don't have to say it out loud themselves? If the answer is the second one, I walk. This week I connect that standard to something quietly telling: OpenAI and Anthropic, the two companies insisting AI is about to remake white-collar work, needed to walk into real organizations and make hard calls about how work actually gets done. They didn't hand that
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