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Last month, a JPMorgan Chase executive went viral for all the wrong reasons. During the Knicks championship parade, she was filmed emptying a commemorative city trash can onto a Manhattan sidewalk and taking the bin home on the subway. Within days, the internet identified her, the Department of Sanitation fined her for littering and taking city property, and JPMorgan confirmed she was no longer with the company. Cue every business owner in America quietly wondering: what woul

You may not use Workday. You may not use any AI hiring tool at all. This lawsuit still matters to you. On June 22, 2026, a federal judge refused to dismiss age, race, and disability discrimination claims against Workday, one of the largest HR software platforms in the world. The case is now moving forward, and the legal reasoning behind it is setting a precedent that will affect every employer who uses any kind of technology in their hiring process, not just Workday customers

An employee misses a deadline. A manager pulls them aside, points out what went wrong, and makes it clear this cannot happen again. That sounds like accountability. It might actually be punishment wearing accountability's name tag. The two get confused constantly, and the confusion is costing businesses more than they realize. Punishment makes people defensive. Accountability makes people better. Most managers think they are doing the second one when they are actually doing t

You promoted your top performer into a leadership role because they were excellent at the job. Six months later, two of your best people quietly start interviewing elsewhere, and you cannot figure out why. Performance looks fine. The team hit its numbers. Nothing on paper explains the exits that are about to happen. Here is what usually explains it: the manager you promoted was great at the work. Nobody ever checked whether they were great at people. The Adage Is True, and th