Russell Reynolds Global Leadership Monitor 2025 H1

Exec Search firms are a great source of C-suite sentiment data. Russell Reynolds conduct this simple data collection exercise twice a year from their candidate bank of execs and via the time series can pick out trends on how C-suite are thinking about the geo-political macro, trade tensions, talent availability, regulation and the rest. Somebody should put these tables into an AI and generate some line charts - would make for a cool blog. H/T Srini Gundelli for the share in the online community

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9. Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive DebtStatus is accruing to those who are most AI-enabled, so it was welcome to see this piece of research land last week - on the consequences to human cognition on over use of AI. An experiment involved tracking neural connectivity of different groups of participants separated by their exposure to AI. Turns out, critical thinking skills atrophy through over reliance on the easy answers provided by your friendly chat companion. There’s probably something in this but we’ve heard the story of The End of Thinking (Again) before.