As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent,

Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills.

There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain. By performing a skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused.

Being blind to those gaps is the real miss.

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Here's your morning brief for Monday, December 22nd. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. officials say the Coast Guard is on the trail of another tanker involved in transporting oil

from Venezuela, which comes after the U.S. seized a second ship over the weekend as part of its

campaign to block vessels moving the country's

crewed. The ship under pursuit has been identified by two officials as the Bella One, which was

sanctioned by the U.S. last year. Its registered owner didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Robotics guru Sterling Anderson has joined the race to run General Motors.

The 42-year-old joined GM back in June as its product chief, overseeing development of both

gas-powered and electric vehicles. The former Tesla staffer, known for clashing with Elon Musk,

is seen by senior leaders at GM as a dark horse candidate to succeed CEO Mary

Bara. A GM spokeswoman said there has been no discussion of Bara leaving and classified

any talk of future roles for Anderson as speculation. And the third Avatar movie opened to about

$345 million worldwide this weekend, according to Disney, well below the

$435 million that the franchise's second film fetched back in 2022. For Avatar, the bar is

especially high due to the size of its production costs, though Disney executives hope

Avatar, Fire, and Ash will benefit from the same box office staying power that help make the earlier installments big successes.

Asian stocks ended the day higher.

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