Executive Insights: Keith Davidson, Managing Principal, Cla Dallas (video)

A former chief people officer shares insights on HR 4.0 and the profession’s progression. At the Exceptional Women Alliance (EWA), we enable high level women to mentor each other to enable each leader to achieve personal and professional happiness through sisterhood. As the nonprofit organization’s founder, chair, and CEO, I am honored to interview and share insights from some of the thought leaders who are part of our peer-to-peer mentoring.

Artificial intelligence is turning hiring into a dystopian cycle of bots trying to trick bots. Tech hiring has become a bot war.

These are the five most loved and loathed locations in the country, according to our analysis. Theoretically, every McDonald’s should be the same. Practically speaking, however, often they are not. Differences in franchise management across all fast-food brands can lead to unexpected irregularities in what customers encounter inside restaurants, regardless of the logos on the storefront.

A data-driven look at how wildly quality can vary within fast-food franchises. Halfway through the 2016 film The Founder, there’s a scene in which McDonald’s venal CEO, Ray Kroc (played by Michael Keaton), tracks down a franchisee on a golf course. Kroc has just discovered that this man’s McDonald’s franchise has drifted away from Kroc’s vision of McDonald’s as “the new American church” and has instead fallen into a derelict hangout for greasers, filled with litter—and, worst of all, that lettuce was somehow finding its way into the hamburgers.

Danville, Virginia’s workforce training program has an accelerated timeline, which is ideal for adult students who want to learn a new career. The remnants of Danville’s past are something of a metaphor for the small city in Southern Virginia. Old brick factories dot the shores of the Dan River, several of them undergoing conversions into hip, new apartment complexes.

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The TV business isn't just about selling TVs anymore. Companies are increasingly seeing viewers, not TV sets, as their most lucrative asset. Over the past few years, TV makers have seen rising financial success from TV operating systems that can show viewers ads and analyze their responses.