Author Archives: GIBS Blog

AI Is Exposing Why Organizations Promote The Wrong Leaders(Forbes)

Organizations are redesigning work for AI while still promoting managers for a pre-AI world. The criteria that built their leadership pipelines may now be working against them. The traits that helped managers succeed in a pre-AI workplace — confidence, visibility and decisiveness — were optimized for environments where leaders were expected to project certainty, move […]
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NEW GIBS Article: Attributional sense-making of distrust in professional service firms: Working in a coopetitive paradox By Neve Abgeller, Mark N. K. Saunders, Rory Donnelly, Tony Dobbins

Abstract Distrust is an inevitable yet often overlooked feature of relationships in professional service firms (PSFs), where simultaneous demands to collaborate and compete produce a coopetitive paradox shaping everyday organizational life. Drawing on 50 in-depth qualitative interviews using the critical incident technique, we examine how professionals attribute meaning to the development of distrust in their […]
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How To Maintain High Performance And Stay Visible To Leadership(Forbes)

Exceptional performance can open doors in the workplace, but only when decision-makers know where the impact is coming from. For rising professionals, this creates a delicate balancing act: devoting enough time and attention to producing high-quality work while also ensuring that senior leaders can see, understand and remember their contributions. The most effective approach is […]
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20 Leadership Strategies For Continuous Learning And Skill Development(Forbes)

The strongest leaders recognize that learning and skill development are not one-off initiatives, but ongoing practices built through experience, feedback and continuous adaptation. This growth can take many forms over the course of your career, whether through mentorship, stretch assignments or reflection. Organizations that prioritize this kind of continuous development are often better positioned to […]
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How leaders are turning AI disruption into a workforce advantage(FC)

Employees are right to feel unsettled. As AI embeds itself deeper into enterprise workflows, the questions it raises aren’t just about efficiency — they’re about the fundamental structure of work itself. Which roles survive? Which skills actually matter? And who bears accountability when a machine acts on your behalf? Reports from the International Labor Organization and the […]
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3 ways leaders can encourage successful AI adoption(FC)

Every few months, another headline declares an AI revolution. And by the numbers, they’re not wrong—more than eight in 10 human resources professionals are now using AI as part of their day-to-day work, according to the latest General Assembly’s State of Tech Talent report. But when you ask a follow-up question, what are they actually doing with it? […]
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A model to accelerate energy technology innovation(FC)

The global energy industry is under pressure to innovate. Energy companies need vetted, field-tested technologies that improve efficiency, enhance safety, and streamline operations. On the other side of the spectrum, early-stage startups developing new technologies struggle to access customers, test environments, and capital. These parallel challenges can slow crucial energy innovation, creating a commercialization gap. […]
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AI might make your company faster, but at what cost?(FC)

Artificial intelligence may be driving rapid results, but it could lead to the quiet erosion of relationships in your company. There’s a quiet trade-off happening inside high-growth companies right now. We’re moving faster than ever, and teams are more efficient. AI is handling work that used to take hours, and asynchronous communication means decisions don’t have to […]
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Nobody Beats You At Being You: LinkedIn’s Bet On Humans Over AI(Forbes)

Aneesh Raman has had the kind of career that sounds like it was invented in a script-writing room. He covered wars for CNN, wrote speeches for President Barack Obama, worked his way through startups, and now serves as Chief Economic Opportunity Officer at LinkedIn, where a dataset drawn from more than 1.2 billion members gives […]
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Adobe is redefining how we understand, create, and share(FC)

We all have something in common: a desire to understand the world and share what we know in ways that spark understanding and inspire action. But communication still moves in one direction. We battle inboxes, scroll feeds, and navigate hours of video. We consume posts, articles, and white papers, rarely making it from introduction to […]
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