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Claire Zillman

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Jamie Dimon says the best teams work like Navy SEALs, not sprawling ‘flat’ corporations

In his latest letter to shareholders, the JPMorgan Chase CEO pushes back on Big Tech’s “do more with less” megamanager model.

09.04.2026 10

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How AI and ‘experience creep’ are making it harder for new graduates to find jobs

Recent graduates going into tech face a double bind: fewer entry-level openings and employers demanding experience that’s nearly impossible to get.

03.04.2026 4

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Meta executives could earn nearly $1 billion each if they hit goals in pursuit of a $9 trillion valuation

Moonshot compensation was once reserved for CEOs. Not anymore.

28.03.2026 5

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What Mark Zuckerberg’s AI sidekick could teach CEOs about leading by example

The Meta CEO and Facebook founder is closing a credibility gap that’s haunting other executives.

24.03.2026 40

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The AI era is turning Corporate America into a CEO churn machine

Investor impatience with slow AI results is driving a wave of CEO exits, as boards demand faster returns from the technology they’ve long touted.

19.03.2026 9

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Meta’s new AI team has 50 engineers per boss. What could go wrong?

The management structure is an extreme test of the “flat” organizational model that more U.S. companies are embracing.

14.03.2026 6

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CEOs are mandating that employees use AI. They’re hardly using it themselves

Business leaders are dangling bonuses and wielding threats to force AI into daily work—yet many barely use the tools themselves, deepening a rift...

13.03.2026 9

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Exclusive: How Dr. Becky Kennedy built a leadership playbook for parenting—and a $34 million-a-year business

She's says today's parents want to improve their skills at home the same way they hone their management skills at work.

27.02.2026 50

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You’ve lost the CEO succession race. Here’s your multi-million dollar bonus

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

27.02.2026 10

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A lucrative consolation prize: Inside the multimillion-dollar retention deals for CEO runners‑up

Disney's Dana Walden was passed over for CEO, but was awarded a $5.26 million stock grant to soften the blow.

25.02.2026 10

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The Epstein files reveal an alarming new normal for corporate America

In business, bad judgment is not always a fireable offense.

14.02.2026 80

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‘AI-washing’ and ‘forever layoffs’: Why companies keep cutting jobs, even amid rising profits

The drip, drip, drip of layoffs at relatively healthy companies like ASML and Amazon is fueling a growing sense that—because of AI or not—no...

11.02.2026 10

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You’ve vanquished your rival in a CEO succession race. Now, how do you lead them?

Disney’s Josh D’Amaro and Dana Walden give CEOs a real-time case study in managing a peer who wanted your job.

07.02.2026 20

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In the age of AI, better meetings might be your company’s secret weapon

Fortune 500 CEOs are cracking down on unproductive meetings. A Stanford PhD who's studied meetings for 15 years says they're not going far enough.

01.02.2026 10

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Fortune 500 CEOs are no longer giving employees an A for effort. Now they want proof of impact

Revamped performance reviews from Mark Zuckerberg, Jane Fraser, and Andy Jassy signal a new management focus on tangible results.

28.01.2026 10

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Women’s steady climb to CEO jobs and board seats is stalling amid a perfect storm of politics, economic uncertainty, and changing management tracks

Women are at risk of losing ground in their hard-earned representation in corporate America. 

23.12.2025 10

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DoorDash CEO Tony Xu outmaneuvered Uber Eats by obsessing over his customer

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

01.12.2025 30

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Companies are trying to do too much with AI, says IT CEO: ‘Pick one or two domains and go end to end’

The key extracting ROI from gen AI projects is to choose your lane—and stay there.

31.10.2025 20

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