My latest episode of Success Stories with Steve Cross is now live.
This week, I sat down with Jeff Herrmann, Global Client Director at Kantar, to talk about building a career that never stops evolving.
We explored how to create opportunities instead of waiting for them, why a bias for action beats a perfect plan, and how AI is transforming the way leaders think about growth and human connection.
My favorite part of the conversation was hearing Jeff describe how curiosity has shaped every stage of his career, from pioneering digital measurement at Nielsen to leading global client partnerships today.
We covered a lot of ground, and it’s one of those episodes that will make you rethink how you approach both career and leadership.
The link to listen is in the first comment.
Which idea from Jeff’s story resonates most with your own leadership journey: creating your own opportunities, staying curious, or learning to lead alongside AI?
Slop…my new favorite term being tossed around in AI culture. Thanks @Jason!
Slop refers to text, images, or videos created by generative models with little human oversight, often repetitive, shallow, or factually weak — the digital equivalent of filler material
I was playing with AI video generators today on the treadmill (walking after having a really solid push day.) I simply wanted a 30 second Reel.
For convenience, I tried to upload a bunch of pics and videos to ChatGPT 5 to see what would happen. It kept asking me repetitive qualifying questions… like it was just trying to exhaust me into giving up.
When all was said and done, and I thought something was going to happen, it finally just told me to go to CapCut.
Kind of strange that it led me down the confirmation path so long and then finally pushed me to another platform.
I guess I can understand why because processing videos is incredibly expensive and sucks up lots of GPUs.
Still waiting for my Sora 2 code… Anyone have one?
@newheightshow@JasonKelce@tkelce .@JasonKelce you're an academic at heart. Tyranny of choice brother! That's why they stick sports stars on cereal boxes to cut through with consumers. Happy to be your academic backstop as I was the NE Ohio guy at Cannes/Stagwell that helped you with "self effacing humor."