How to Build a Winning Company Culture in the AI Era | The New Rules of Leadership, Hiring, and Business | HR Superstars Podcast w/ Karina Young

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In this episode, Chris Walker joins Karina Young on HR Superstars to make the economic and scientific case for why the primary development target of every organization needs to shift, and why the HR function is sitting on one of the most powerful levers in the business right now. Chris opens with the factory worker parallel. In 1950, 65% of workers in the economy worked in factories. Every one of them had an IQ. None of them were trained to use it because the economy did not need it yet. AI is doing the same thing now: surfacing capacities that humans always had but that the economic conditions of the past never required. The fear response most leaders feel about AI is not a personality trait. It is a symptom of undertrained adaptability. The same economic logic that made deferring to consultants and following best practices an advantage in 2000 is now a liability when conditions move too fast to wait for a McKinsey report. The conversation goes deep on what organizations are actually measuring versus what actually drives performance. The number one factor of decision quality is the internal state of the decision maker at the moment they decide. The number one factor of a team's