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I Googled myself through ChatGPT. It cited my LinkedIn posts. Not my company website. Not a blog I spent weeks optimising for SEO. My LinkedIn posts with source links. I didn't ask it to. I just typed my full name. It pulled what I do. What I post about. Referenced specific posts that went viral. Linked directly to them. I sat there for a minute. Because I never optimised a single LinkedIn post for AI. Not one. I wrote them for people who deal with the same problems I deal with. LinkedIn is now the #1 source AI platforms cite for B2B and professional queries. ChatGPT . Perplexity . Google AI Overviews. They're all pulling from LinkedIn and personal profiles get cited more than company pages. Meanwhile, most B2B marketers are still treating LinkedIn like a social media feed. Post something. Get a few likes. Move on. They're not seeing it yet. The blogs I wrote two years ago... Still rank on Google's first page because I targeted the right keywords at the right search volume. That was the old game. Write for search. Rank. Win. The new game looks different. AI doesn't just crawl your website anymore. It reads your LinkedIn. It reads your posts. And if your content is specific, data-backed, and tied to a real topic, it gets cited. With a link. Your LinkedIn isn't a feed anymore. It's an index. Every post you publish is a page AI can find, cite, and surface to someone asking a question you already answered. Most B2B marketers are still spending 80% of their budget on Google Ads and gated whitepapers. That's not wrong. But the channel they're ignoring.. The one they post on once a week with no strategy is quietly becoming the most cited source in their industry. The game changed. Most haven't looked up yet. ♻️ Repost if your LinkedIn strategy is still "post and hope."

I stopped asking if jobs can be automated. Now I ask if they deserve a human. Running teams has taught me that a wrong question gets the wrong answer. For years I sat in rooms debating which roles AI could replace. Faster. Cheaper. Scalable. Nobody asked the harder question. → Is this work worth a life spent doing it? → Does it matter to anyone outside this building? → Would we be proud to tell our kids we built it? A job is not dignified because it's safe. A job is dignified because it means something. If someone cannot explain in plain words how their work improves a real person's life, the job failed them long before any algorithm arrived. We've spent a decade measuring efficiency. We forgot to measure meaning. The future of work is not more tools. It's fewer roles. Better ones. Where the outcome is clear. Where judgment is expected. Where a human being finishes the day knowing what they built. That's the only AI conversation worth having. What's one role in your company you'd be proud to hand to your own child?

The most interesting thing about the Middle East today isn’t just growth. It’s conviction. Across the latest MEA Business Magazine conversations, one thing is hard to ignore: from Jotun Middle East, India and Africa (MEIA) to Aramex , SAP MENA to Deloitte , and institutions like Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund and Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI) No one is “testing” the region anymore. They are doubling down on it. Let’s be honest, if this was a short-term market, capital would have paused. Hiring would have slowed. Expansion plans would be under review. That’s not what we’re seeing. From a talent lens, this shift is even more significant. When growth becomes structural, talent doesn’t just move—it anchors itself. The Middle East today is not just participating in global growth. It is helping redefine where growth comes from. #MiddleEast #UAE #Leadership #Growth #Resilience #FutureOfWork #EconomicShift #Business

When things feel unpredictable, people don’t look for more information. They look for direction, consistency, and trust. One of the clearest patterns across resilient organisations is simple. Leaders who communicate clearly, consistently, and calmly build stronger teams. Glad to contribute to this conversation with Fast Company Middle East on why employee well-being and leadership clarity are now deeply connected. How you lead matters just as much as what you decide. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/g-S2MghV #Leadership #EmployeeWellbeing #Resilience #Trust #FutureOfWork

The staffing industry is eating itself. And I say that as someone who runs one of the biggest staffing companies in the GCC. Adecco stock down 15%. Randstad stock down 35%. ManpowerGroup stock down 43%. In one year. These companies still make billions in revenue. But investors are saying: your model is broken. The cracks started in 2019. LinkedIn . Indeed . Gig platforms. Clients could suddenly find talent themselves. They knew market salaries before we did. Candidates were one DM away. Then COVID hit and ripped the door off. Remote hiring. Virtual onboarding. EOR models. Everything staffing firms charged a premium for? A platform could do it faster and cheaper. We went from strategic partners to CV providers overnight. For decades, staffing meant one thing. Send CVs. Shave margins. Push volume. Now clients want something else entirely. Pre-trained talent. Integrated tech. Compliance built in. AI-driven recruitment that screens, interviews, and matches. AI workforce solutions that predict what teams need before they need it. Not 100 CVs in an inbox by Friday. The companies still selling people like commodities? Their share price is the proof. 25 years in this industry. Never seen a shift this fast. The UAE is leading it. Emiratisation. Managed services. AI at the core of hiring. This market isn't waiting for the old model to catch up. If you're in staffing and still competing on price per head, look at those stock charts. That's your warning. What's the biggest shift you've seen in how companies hire talent in the last 2 years?