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In-Ear Insights: Navigating Terrible Leadership and the AI Career Threat
In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss troubling new trends in leadership and how you can navigate an increasingly demanding work environment.
You’ll learn to identify the difference between tough business decisions and terrible leadership tactics. You’ll discover practical strategies to document issues and set healthy boundaries with difficult leaders. You’ll understand the critical importance of building your personal brand and professional network as your career life raft. You’ll explore how to use new tools, including AI, to enhance your skills and uncover hidden job opportunities. Watch this episode to gain actionable advice and empower yourself in today’s evolving workplace!
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Christopher S. Penn – 00:00
In this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie, “Everybody’s replaceable; work-life balance’s your problem”—which is what the CEO of shapewear company Skims and the label Good American had to say. Other people in positions of power have had equally less. I guess I don’t even know how to put this.
It is a definite tone shift. This is from a Wall Street Journal article from May 11, titled “Everybody’s Replaceable: The New Ways Bosses Talk About Workers.” And the punchline is: shut up, stop complaining, and do more work for less pay.
Katie Robbert – 00:46
The thing I took away from this is, first of all, look at the companies that have been listed. So you have Skims, you have Starbucks, you have J.P. Morgan, you have Uber. Yeah. So these are big global tech companies and consumer brands.
So Skims and Good American are the Kardashians. So take that with a big fat boulder of salt.
Katie Robbert – 01:19
Uber has had nothing but issues.
Katie Robbert – 01:23
Starbucks, same thing. So I look at these companies and—yup, that’s completely on brand for those particular companies because those particular companies have had really shitty leadership issues.
Katie Robbert – 01:38
For a long time.
Katie Robbert – 01:40
Therefore, I read this article and I don’t fully believe that it’s a good representation of quote-unquote corporate America. I just don’t.
I’m not naive enough to think that there aren’t leaders out there in companies speaking this way. They absolutely are. But that’s not new. AI is not creating this problem.
Katie Robbert – 02:07
This is not a new problem.
Katie Robbert – 02:09
New tech, same problem. If your lea
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In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss troubling new trends in leadership and how you can navigate an increasingly demanding work environment.
You’ll learn to identify the difference between tough business decisions and terrible leadership tactics. You’ll discover practical strategies to document issues and set healthy boundaries with difficult leaders. You’ll understand the critical importance of building your personal brand and professional network as your career life raft. You’ll explore how to use new tools, including AI, to enhance your skills and uncover hidden job opportunities. Watch this episode to gain actionable advice and empower yourself in today’s evolving workplace!
Watch the video here:
Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here.
Listen to the audio here:
https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-management-leadership-ai-communications-strategy.mp3
Download the MP3 audio here.
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Machine-Generated Transcript
What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode.
Christopher S. Penn – 00:00
In this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie, “Everybody’s replaceable; work-life balance’s your problem”—which is what the CEO of shapewear company Skims and the label Good American had to say. Other people in positions of power have had equally less. I guess I don’t even know how to put this.
It is a definite tone shift. This is from a Wall Street Journal article from May 11, titled “Everybody’s Replaceable: The New Ways Bosses Talk About Workers.” And the punchline is: shut up, stop complaining, and do more work for less pay.
Katie Robbert – 00:46
The thing I took away from this is, first of all, look at the companies that have been listed. So you have Skims, you have Starbucks, you have J.P. Morgan, you have Uber. Yeah. So these are big global tech companies and consumer brands.
So Skims and Good American are the Kardashians. So take that with a big fat boulder of salt.
Katie Robbert – 01:19
Uber has had nothing but issues.
Katie Robbert – 01:23
Starbucks, same thing. So I look at these companies and—yup, that’s completely on brand for those particular companies because those particular companies have had really shitty leadership issues.
Katie Robbert – 01:38
For a long time.
Katie Robbert – 01:40
Therefore, I read this article and I don’t fully believe that it’s a good representation of quote-unquote corporate America. I just don’t.
I’m not naive enough to think that there aren’t leaders out there in companies speaking this way. They absolutely are. But that’s not new. AI is not creating this problem.
Katie Robbert – 02:07
This is not a new problem.
Katie Robbert – 02:09
New tech, same problem. If your lea
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