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GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani told Business Insider he declines to read internal reports he suspects were generated by AI. He said he can usually tell when writing is AI-produced and that he values the writing process because it forces employees to clarify their own thinking.
A CEO in the electronics sector recounts working as a teenager detasseling corn in Illinois for $1.50 an hour, a job that involved manually removing tassels from corn plants in the field. The CEO says that experience still informs their approach to leadership and business today, including conversations with leaders about trade policy.
Matt Ebert, CEO of 650-location collision repair chain Crash Champions, has produced about 35 episodes of his podcast, PodCrash with Matt Ebert, featuring conversations on leadership, entrepreneurship and trades. He says the show helps build familiarity with customers before they ever need a repair, and has become an unexpected recruiting tool, with job candidates saying they feel they already know him. Ebert also uses the podcast to highlight that the company's technicians earn more than $100,000 on average and increasingly work with tablets alongside traditional tools.
In a Modern CEO newsletter column, Stephanie Mehta cites a former Harvard Business School dean who has studied chief executives for three decades and concludes the fundamentals of the job have stayed largely the same. The newsletter also touches on how talent agent Ari Emanuel's leadership style differs from typical corporate CEOs.
New Vistage research shows most small and midsize U.S. businesses have adopted generative AI, with 76% of CEOs personally using the technology, yet fewer than a quarter have formal oversight structures in place. The findings come alongside a broader call for CEOs to make overdue leadership and program decisions before the year ends rather than deferring them into the next fiscal cycle.
At a Fast Company event moderated by Stephanie Mehta, Supergoop CEO Melis Del Rey, Bel North America CEO Peter McGuinness, and BBC Studios direct-to-consumer chief Robert Schildhouse discussed the challenges of stepping into top leadership roles. The three executives compared notes on managing employee expectations and public skepticism toward corporate leaders in the early stages of their tenures.
A panel featuring Jason LaRose of Bombas, Lindsay Shumlas of Cotopaxi and Priscilla Sims Brown of Amalgamated Bank examined how companies can maintain a sense of mission despite ongoing debate over corporate social responsibility. The discussion centered on balancing employee expectations, consumer scrutiny and public trust while running purpose-oriented businesses.