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Layoffs, AI Eating Cognitive Work, and a Leadership Capacity Crisis

Layoffs, AI Eating Cognitive Work, and a Leadership Capacity Crisis

Update: 2025-12-10
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December 10, 2025: Today's episode breaks down the forces reshaping work right now: more than 1.1 million layoffs across the U.S. economy, bank CEOs signaling that AI will replace foundational tasks, engineering leaders using AI to reveal performance gaps, new Harvard research showing AI agents taking over cognitive work, a widening leadership-capacity gap, and the rise of AI-native people management platforms like Shapes. We explore what each story means for talent, leadership, and the future of work.

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Layoffs, AI Eating Cognitive Work, and a Leadership Capacity Crisis

Layoffs, AI Eating Cognitive Work, and a Leadership Capacity Crisis