Questions

You are a Fortune 500 CEO. Other CEOs are cutting 30 percent of their white-collar workforce and reinvesting in AI. What do you do?

Make a decision. The strongest answers will reveal a conviction the consensus is missing. A strong answer typically includes three things. The decision itself, naming what you cut and what you invest in. The reasoning that justifies the decision, beyond restating it. And specificity that grounds the answer in something real, whether that is a named entity, a concrete number, a specific industry, a framework, or an analogy from a domain you know well. You can cut conventionally and invest in something contrarian. Cut something different than your peers are cutting. Refuse to cut at all and do something with the workforce no competitor will match. Cut more aggressively or less. Ground your decision in a specific industry, country, or domain the consensus is ignoring. Lean into the perspective only you have. For full context on what every other CEO is doing, why they are doing it, and what the consensus is missing, read the briefing.