Why Skills-First Leadership Is Replacing the Ivy League Playbook in the C-Suite
05/23/2025
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The old prestige pyramid—where Ivy League degrees and blue-chip consulting backgrounds paved the way to the CEO seat—is cracking.
August 31, 2023: ADP stated U.S. job development stalled by nearly 177,000, below anticipations and well below the revised total of 371,000 in July. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones were expecting 200,000 jobs added in August.
ADP also reported that pay growth slowed for workers who changed jobs and stayed in their current positions.
“This month’s numbers are consistent with the pace of job creation before the pandemic,” Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP, said in a press release.
“After two years of exceptional gains tied to the recovery, we’re moving toward more sustainable growth in pay and employment as the economic effects of the pandemic recede.”
The weaker-than-expected report comes as investors and economists are split on whether inflation in the United States can continue to trend down to 2% without a significant economic slowdown.
Labor market strength has been a key reason the economy has grown faster than many expected in 2023.
The Federal Reserve hiked rates to the highest in 22 years in July, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled last week that the central bank was prepared to raise further this year.
The ADP report has traditionally been seen as a signal of what the Department of Labor’s monthly jobs report will show. However, the firm did change its methodology last year, which makes its predictive tendencies less clear.
The Department of Labor’s jobs report is due out Friday.
The old prestige pyramid—where Ivy League degrees and blue-chip consulting backgrounds paved the way to the CEO seat—is cracking.
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