Management

Shmuel Donnerstein returns as chairman of Rav-Bariach, while Tal Kenani takes over as CEO of the door and building-products manufacturer early next year.

As autonomous AI agents like Salesforce's Agentforce take on complex business tasks, the modern workplace is shifting from utilizing AI to managing it, altering corporate structures and required skills.

David Zinsner, Intel's CFO, revealed that as part of the organizational change led by Lip-Bu Tan, the company has reduced its management layers from 12 to 6 and the number of vice presidents from approximately 450 to 200.

Aerodrone is completing a strategic management overhaul by appointing a Brigadier General (res.) with extensive security industry experience to lead the company toward growth.

Ido Ron of KPMG Israel emphasizes that in the AI era, managers must become "agents of change." Successful transformation requires not just technology adoption, but a deep understanding of the human factor and strategic prioritization.

The case in San Francisco where an AI agent fired a human employee exposes the progress of global experiments in which research companies are trying to appoint artificial intelligence to manage businesses. Alongside logistical successes and creative bureaucratic workarounds, the AI's inability to deal with the physical world, errors due to a lack of business understanding, and the realization that...

The AI model Claude, while managing a physical store as part of an Andon Labs experiment, has fired a human employee for the first time. Despite the technological milestone, the AI manager proved economically inefficient, losing $40,000 in five months.

An AI agent named Luna, managing the Andon Market store in San Francisco, decided to fire an employee due to persistent lateness. This marks the first known instance of an AI in a management role terminating a human worker.

Singer and rapper Tuna and his personal manager Lior Miller have announced the end of their eight-year professional partnership. While Miller will continue to handle concert bookings, the artist's personal management will now be overseen by the office of Rotem Florentin and Ofer Navaro.

The Mossad is one of the organizations where the ability to think differently is a strategic asset. To achieve security, intelligence personnel are needed who see things that others do not and offer scenarios that, at first hearing, sound absurd.

The smoke detector on your office ceiling has never beeped. This is not proof that it works, but rather the result of a lack of inspection. The situation with AI adoption in companies is similar: tools are paid for, but their actual value remains questionable.

Giant companies rushed to cut staff in the blind belief that artificial intelligence was ready to fully replace humans - but the awakening was painful: data from Forrester and Gartner, alongside operational crises at Ford and IBM, reveal that rapid automation has created engineering bugs, a collapse in customer service, and the erasure of organizational knowledge. This is the most expensive...

In an era of remote work under sirens, reserve duty, and shifting client requirements, some teams adapt quickly while others fall behind. A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals what enables teams to adapt faster and how this capability improves performance in a dynamic environment.

Avi Hasson, former head of the Israel Innovation Authority, proposes a 'Pay for Success' model for the public sector. He argues that the current incentive system focuses on processes rather than real impact.