{"podcast":{"title":"Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan","slug":"future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576","podcast_index_feed_id":891576,"rss_url":"https://futureofworkpodcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.thefutureorganization.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/5/3/f/d53f491be4dc443dd959afa2a1bf1c87/5_copy.jpg","author":"Jacob Morgan","episode_count":1212,"summary":"The future of work isn't coming. It's already here — and it's moving fast. Future Ready is the podcast for leaders who want to stay ahead of AI, workplace transformation, and the forces reshaping how organizations operate and compete. Hosted by Jacob Morgan, futurist and bestselling author, this is where strategy meets reality. Every week, two formats in one feed: honest, unfiltered conversations with the CEOs, CHROs, and senior executives actually building the future of work — and sharp, no-fluff daily briefings that take the most important developments in artificial intelligence, AI agents, leadership, hybrid work, and organizational strategy and tell you exactly what they mean for your business. No hype. No filler. Just the insights, frameworks, and real-world playbooks that help you lead smarter, build resilient teams, and make better decisions in a world that won't slow down. If you're serious about leading what's next — this is your podcast. Subscribe to Future Ready wherever you listen.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576"},"episode":{"title":"The Manager Purge, the Agent Sprawl Crisis, and America's 1,200 AI Laws With No Rulebook","slug":"the-manager-purge-the-agent-sprawl-crisis-and-america-s-1-200-ai-laws-with-no-rulebook","published_at":"2026-05-15T20:54:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576/the-manager-purge-the-agent-sprawl-crisis-and-america-s-1-200-ai-laws-with-no-rulebook","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576","url":"https://futureofworkpodcast.libsyn.com/the-manager-purge-the-agent-sprawl-crisis-and-americas-1200-ai-laws-with-no-rulebook","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/futureofworkpodcast/manager-purge-agent-sprawl-rpa-ai-regulation-future-of-work-may-15-2026.mp3?dest-id=209072","summary":"May 15, 2026: The Guardian documents the tech industry's accelerating purge of middle managers — and history says companies have tried this exact bet before with Jack Welch and the Reengineering movement, with disastrous long-term results. The Wall Street Journal reports companies are drowning in ungoverned AI agents, raising a critical question: is agentic AI actually different from the RPA sprawl crisis of a decade ago, and is the difference showing up in real outcomes? And Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and NYU's Gary Marcus argue in Fortune that America's 1,200 AI bills have no shared test for what makes good policy — and the regulatory patchwork hardening in place rhymes uncomfortably with the conditions that produced the 2008 financial crisis.","meta_description":"May 15, 2026: The Guardian documents the tech industry's accelerating purge of middle managers — and history says companies have tried this exact bet befo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2629,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576/episodes/the-manager-purge-the-agent-sprawl-crisis-and-america-s-1-200-ai-laws-with-no-rulebook/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576/the-manager-purge-the-agent-sprawl-crisis-and-america-s-1-200-ai-laws-with-no-rulebook.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}