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CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
In just five minutes a day, Dr. Jessica Kriegel, Chief Strategy Officer of Workforce and Labor for Culture Partners, unpacks the latest research, trends and strategies shaping workplace culture, and driving business results. CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel is a 5-minute daily podcast where business pragmatism meets inner wisdom.
Episodes
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
What the David Bar Controversy Teaches Leaders
In today’s episode: A viral protein bar built its success on a special ingredient, and then bought the company supplying it, cutting off every other brand in…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Can a Mission Statement Attract Better Employees?
In today’s episode: A new CEO reveals why the mission statement he inherited was so broad it could have worked for a health clinic or a yoga studio, and what…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Could Hackers Be Inside Your Company Right Now?
In today’s episode: Attackers are now living undetected inside company systems for months before striking, and most leaders have no idea just how long that…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
What Would You Change If the World Might End Next Year?
In today’s episode: A thought experiment about a non-zero chance the world ends next year leads to a surprisingly practical list of things worth changing right…
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Would Your Company Survive a Major Tech Outage?
In today’s episode: A barista’s innocent apology about a “Microsoft outage” reveals just how misunderstood one of the biggest tech failures in recent memory…
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Do Your Policies Serve the Company or the Boss?
In today’s episode: A leadership habit occurs every time work becomes harder to see, and most leaders don’t even realize they do it. Research from Stanford…
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Why Hackers Target Your People First
In today’s episode: A planted USB drive labeled with a tempting personal file took less than ten minutes to get plugged into company laptops, revealing just…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Why Do the People Who Know AI Best Trust It Least?
In today’s episode: New SHRM research reveals a counterintuitive pattern: the people who understand AI best actually rely on it the least. A 5AM email from one…
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What Happens When the AI You Rely On Goes Down?
In today’s episode: A teenage driver’s first response after a car accident points a finger at the technology itself. Database strikes in Russia reveal just how…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Will Your Next Boss Be an AI Agent?
In today’s episode: Managerial ranks have shrunk while the spans of control employees report to have tripled, and the strategy for handling that shift is often…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Should Leaders Reward Loud Workers?
In today’s episode: The new workplace trend that reveals exactly how insecure employees have become. A quote from an unexpected source perfectly explains why…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
How to Get Buy-In for Change When Nobody Reports to You
In today’s episode: A CIO’s enterprise-wide change effort runs into an issue that has nothing to do with the technology. There’s a reframe for implementation…
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Does Your Company Reward Sacrifice or Punish It?
In today’s episode: Companies running multiple transformation efforts at once often don’t realize they’re working against each other. A bakery’s leadership…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Who Gets Fired When the AI Makes the Mistake?
In today’s episode: A viral story about Tony Robbins’ AI assistant buying him an actual robot raises a strange but serious question about AI accountability. A…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
When You Can’t See the Work, Manage the Results
In today’s episode: A fast-growing company reveals why going fully remote actually forced them to become more results driven, not less accountable. There’s a…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Three Questions Before Your Next Acquisition
In today's episode: A study of over 400 acquisitions reveals when past success actually makes a CEO's next big decision more dangerous. There's a simple filter…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Geopolitical Risk
In today’s episode: A tariff expert predicted a major policy move two weeks before it happened, revealing a surprising strategy companies need when the rules…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
If You Cannot Explain Who Owns It, Do Not Automate It
In today’s episode: A general counsel went from a manageable workload to ten times the contracts overnight, and automation might be hurting more than helping…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Shackleton Created the Crisis. Why Do We Teach Him as the Hero?
In today's episode: A famous polar explorer studied in business schools everywhere turns out to have been a disaster of planning and poor decisions, while the…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
The Easier Communication Gets, The Harder It Is to Be Heard
In today's episode: A paradox about modern communication reveals why being heard has never been harder. The specific phrase coined for the kind of content that…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Culture Ate Strategy for Breakfast
In today's episode: A CEO credits more than half of his company's dramatic earnings growth to one specific investment, and it's not the one most executives…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Strong Results Gave Frank Vella Permission Not to Follow the Crowd
In today's episode: A tense moment at a CEO roundtable reveals a sharp divide over who holds power. There's a blunt argument about why forcing intelligent…
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The Mattering Effect with John Miles
In today's episode: There's a form of disengagement that explains why so many high performing people feel invisible at work even while succeeding on paper. A…
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Amazon's Boomerang Bet
In today's episode: A company laid off thousands of workers and then called a surprising group of former employees. The costly mistake some companies make…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
The Humility Hack That Saved a Company
In today's episode: A company on the brink, with barely two weeks of cash left, found its turnaround not in new strategy but in something leadership had…
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Stop Watching the Jobs Report
In today's episode: A single monthly number moves markets every time, even though it's meant to be revised. There's a good reason your hiring struggles might…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Are You Solving a Problem — or Shopping for a Solution?
In today's episode: Research on narcissistic CEOs reveals why some leaders keep chasing acquisitions long after they should have stopped. A CEO's own filter…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
The Best Recession Strategy Was Neither Cutting Hard Nor Investing Big
In today's episode: A study of 4,700 companies across three recessions reveals a surprising winning strategy. There's a specific reason fear pushes leaders…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Is the Labor Market Your Diagnosis or Your Alibi?
In today’s episode: The favorite excuses leaders are using to explain poor performance, from COVID overhiring to “consumer malaise” and a familiar generational…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
What Does Your Company Know That BLS Never Will?
In today's episode: There's a reason recruiting is difficult even when macro data says the labor market is cooling, and it has nothing to do with the economy…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Supply & Demand
In today's episode: There's a strange economic contradiction happening right now, interest rates rising while the economy cools, and one theory points to two…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Resilience & The Last Man Off the Miracle on the Hudson
In today's episode: A guest who was the final passenger off Flight 1549 – The Miracle on the Hudson – reveals the exact words that ran through his head as…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
50% Turnover Is Not “Normal.” It’s an Operational Defect.
In today's episode: A private equity leader confronts CEOs who dismiss high turnover as just how the industry works, and challenges them to solve it like any…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Leadership 'Training'
In today's episode: Leadership training budgets are disappearing even as teams beg for it, and there's a specific reason the old three hour workshop model…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
There Is No Such Thing as “The Labor Market”
In today's episode: A company with over 100,000 hourly workers reveals why there's no such thing as a single national labor market for them. There's a coming…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
AI is Creating Capacity. Will Leaders Cut Costs or Build a Growth Engine?
In today's episode: Almost everyone answers the same way when asked why they're using AI. But they’re answering the wrong question entirely. A study of 7,000…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Announcing The Work Signal
In today's episode: A call from one of the largest HR organizations in the world sets off a partnership that's about to change what shows up in your inbox…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
The Bad First Draft That Moves Billions
In today's episode: A number that moves markets every single month turns out to be built on a shakier foundation than most people realize, and it's wrong by…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
If AI Does the Junior Work, How Does Anyone Become Senior?
In today's episode: The AI and talent pipeline panic sweeping the workplace world might be asking the wrong question entirely. A 23 year-old associate reveals…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Trust, AI & Culture in Supply Chain
In today's episode: A 25 year supply chain veteran reveals why the biggest risk to automation and AI rollouts has nothing to do with the technology itself…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
AI Saved TIAA 90 Minutes. The Real Work Came Next
In today's episode: A sales team facing shutdown turned things around not through a new dashboard or incentive plan, but through one weekly habit a leader…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Learning and Development
In today's episode: New research shows companies are pulling back sharply on training budgets this year, and there are three specific reasons behind the drop…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Before IKEA Scaled AI, It Educated Leaders
In today's episode: One 17 year-old's one minute AI experiment left a top executive stunned enough to completely rethink his company's leadership strategy…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Your $20 AI Budget Is Not An AI Strategy
In today's episode: Handing every employee a small monthly AI budget and calling it innovation turns out to be hiding a much bigger problem underneath. How…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Lack of Stability in Leadership
In today's episode: There's a wave of instability spreading across teams right now, and the source is often closer to home than leaders realize. A specific…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
AI Saved Time but the Organization Didn't Change
In today's episode: New research on thousands of knowledge workers found AI is saving them time, but that individual efficiency isn't translating into…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
The Most Important Lesson at the Table
In today's episode: A leader finally earned a seat at an exclusive strategy group, only to be removed just two meetings later for a reason that caught her…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
If AI Changes the Work, Should It Change Who You Hire?
In today's episode: There's a difference between telling someone they're not good enough and telling them the job simply doesn't exist anymore. A leader's rule…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
How Change Actually Becomes Culture
In today's episode: A leader's role in modeling culture change turns out to matter more than any facility's size or security level. There's a surprising…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Transforming Into a Change Agent
In today's episode: A corrections agency went from working in silos to a graduation rate jump most training programs would envy, and it started with three…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Change Management vs Activation
In today's episode: A powerful metaphor about sailing reveals exactly why so many change initiatives stall out even after every employee understands the plan…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
LLM Apocalypse
In today's episode: A Linux maintainer made headlines by deleting a massive chunk of old code, and the reason behind it has everything to do with how AI is…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Labor Protections
In today's episode: Regulatory rollbacks around worker safety are stirring debate, but the more interesting question is who's actually asking for them and why…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Is Your CEO a Narcissist?
In today's episode: Research reveals a surprising reason narcissistic CEOs are more likely to pursue acquisitions. Why there is a gendered assumption baked…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Burnout is a Cop-out
In today's episode: A CEO gave a response to burnout that felt harsh at first but ended up changing everything. How using an untouchable morning block releases…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
The Job You Think You Have
In today's episode: The gap between how employees define their job and how the leaders who hired them actually see it. How a simple question about your own…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Invisible Value
In today's episode: A phrase like "soft skills" hides something leaders desperately need. Why taking lunch with someone who seemingly can't ‘do anything for…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
My Imaginary Board of Directors
In today's episode: A startup CEO built a board out of people she's never met, and now she consults them before every major decision. There's a specific way to…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
The Data's Right There!
In today's episode: A company kept trying to cut overtime as a cost problem, but the data told a completely different story about why employees loved it. How a…
- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
How to Break Down Departmental Silos
In today's episode: A retreat in the Bahamas turned tense when someone in the audience named the conflict everyone in the room was avoiding. One question that…