Julie Averill

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing · The AI Headlines You Should Be Most Suspicious Of · 28 Jun 2026 podcast

And then you look a little deeper and it's not because they've actually found the efficiencies to be able to lay these people off, but it's because they overhired maybe during the pandemic and now need to right size their team so that they can take that money, invest in other things.

So performing is declaring, right?

Like what's my AI strategy?

And the board comes up and they bless it.

And underneath that, you don't have the individual leaders that are saying, your supply chain leaders saying, here's how AI is going to help me get the right products to the right place when the customer is there to get it.

And it's just, you know...

efficiencies out of supply chain.

So yeah, performance is companies that are going for headlines, you know, looking to be AI forward without actually doing the work of understanding what AI is supposed to do in their organization.

And we're seeing that a ton today.

Yeah, I bring up a couple examples in my book of where truth-telling is important.

One is when we returned to office from COVID, right?

And I was part of this, right?

We wanted to bring people back into the office three days a week, and we just sold the upside of it, right?

It's going to be amazing to have everybody back in the office together.

We'll be able to rebuild our culture, to build connections, to be the company that we used to be when we saw each other face-to-face, the water cooler conversations, et cetera.

And I believe that, but without acknowledging to people that we were disrupting the lives that they had come to build and saying, we're asking you to give up the opportunity to pick up your kid at daycare like you've been doing or to take care of your parents.

then you're only telling half the truth and people are smart.

And so when we go out today as leaders and we say, AI is going to transform our company and we're gonna augment, not replace your skills,

People are still silently wondering what's in it for me.

I just read a report today out from ADP and it said that 22% of people globally feel like AI is not going to replace, threaten their job.

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