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A change is gonna come Over the last three weeks, we've looked at career change patterns among executives. We saw that most CEOs and C-suite leaders of the AI 50 have changed careers several times, while Fortune 100 execs have changed much less often. We also saw that, among execs, career changers are more likely to hire other career changers, and that execs hired in the last 12 months are more likely to be career changers than in previous years. This got me curious about two things: We've...
The Emergency In the book The Mysterious Benedict Society, all the action takes place in the backdrop of The Emergency, a constant news cycle of one frenetic catastrophe after another. It's a fantastic book series, double plus recommend. But though I read it several years ago, I can't get this one detail out of my head right now. Because real life has never reminded me more of The Emergency. There are many ways people try to cope with a steady diet of stress and chaos: political activism,...
Change careers, start an AI company Last week, we looked at CEO and C-suite leaders in the AI 50 to see how many of them have a history of making significant career changes. 76% of the AI CEOs had at least two different kinds of careers before starting their current companies. Interesting but maybe not surprising, since CEO-founders tend to be a non-linear bunch. More contrary to conventional wisdom is that 64% of other AI C-suiters also have major career changes in their past. They are HR...