Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pa…
Before most of America pours its first cup of coffee, millions of workers are already hours into their shifts, and they’re tired. Overnight warehouse workers are packing orders. Early-morning bus drivers are taking kids to school. ER nurses are handin…
Jobseekers and recruiters are at a technological standoff.
Candidates upload (and retype) their resumes into an applicant tracking system (ATS) with no sense of whether or not their applications are getting seen. Recruiters are buried under h…
When you face a challenge, how do you know how much effort to put into solving it? How do you determine whether you’re preparing or procrastinating?
When I was 21, I got sick with a complicated and poorly understood illness. After seven…
Burnout is getting all the attention right now—but it’s not where the problem starts.
By the time a leader is burned out, the breakdown in performance, communication, and capacity is already underway. Organizations aren’t preventing the issue…
Suzy Welch has some advice for people struggling to get hired.
Being penalized for using flexible working policies—remote work, hybrid work, parental leave, and more—can be subtle, or screamingly obvious.
Nicole Yelland, a communications strategist from Detroit, has experienced both. In one remote role, she w…
There is a growing body of evidence that AI is redefining white-collar work. It’s not just the endless rounds of layoffs at tech companies that herald this transformation. Entry-level jobs are disappearing in sectors like software engineering, leaving…
The AI conversation today focuses on systems. Which jobs will survive? How does education need to adapt? What happens to the economy when machines produce what humans used to? Governments are commissioning reports. Executives are restructuring. Educat…
Let’s say you and your team are struggling with an assignment for a client who’s notoriously difficult to work with. Even though your team is doing great work, the client lodges an unfair complaint against your star team member. At the end of th…
