Lareina Yee

1 month ago | mckinsey.org | Alex Singla |Alexander Sukharevsky |Lareina Yee |Michael Chui

Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI. While still in early days, companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks. Organizations are starting to make organizational changes designed to generate future value from gen AI, and large companies are leading the way.

1 month ago | time.com | Kweilin Ellingrud |Lareina Yee

In 1978, a human resources executive named Marilyn Loden participated in a panel discussion at the Women’s Exposition in New York City about women’s career ambitions. While much of the conversation revolved around the behavioral changes that women should make in order to succeed, Marilyn argued instead that the real issue was the structural barriers keeping them from the top. She stated that there was an “invisible glass ceiling” standing in the way of their aspirations and opportunities.

1 month ago | community.thriveglobal.com | Kweilin Ellingrud |Lareina Yee

The truth is that soft skills will only grow in value as you progress throughout your career. This is true for two reasons: First, soft skills are going to be more valuable in the future for workers at all levels. Second, they are required for managerial roles and advancing in your career. Let’s look at both reasons in more depth. After technology, soft skills are going to be the most critical growing skill category in the future, which is part of an ongoing trend.

1 month ago | mckinsey.com | Kweilin Ellingrud |Lareina Yee

Workplaces are full of talented, educated, and hardworking women. Many are caught off guard when, several years into their careers, they see that they are falling behind their peers, and they can’t put a finger on exactly how or why. Women, after all, are doing everything they can to prepare themselves for successful careers. As early as kindergarten, girls on average outperform boys across all disciplines, including math.

2 months ago | mckinsey.com | Hannah Mayer |Lareina Yee |Michael Chui |Roger Roberts

Artificial intelligence has arrived in the workplace and has the potential to be as transformative as the steam engine was to the 19th-century Industrial Revolution. With powerful and capable large language models (LLMs) developed by Anthropic, Cohere, Google, Meta, Mistral, OpenAI, and others, we have entered a new information technology era. McKinsey research sizes the long-term AI opportunity at $4.4 trillion in added productivity growth potential from corporate use cases.