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Human skills, agents, workforce transformation and organisational design.
This section brings together 4 insights on Future Skills and the Future of Work, with research, practical frameworks and lessons from working with leaders.
4 pieces
Employers are posting fewer jobs that ask for basic AI skills, and teachers use AI least where a wrong answer lands on a pupil. Here is how to find where your staff stop, and what to train there.
Entry-level work is being hollowed out rather than abolished. The risk is not that you stop hiring juniors, but that you keep hiring them into jobs that no longer teach them anything. A three-question filter for deciding what to automate.
Let an AI agent run unattended only where a wrong result would be noticed, noticed in time, and could be put back. Here is the test to run on each agent already working inside your organization, and the six lines to settle before the next leadership meeting.
Every organization now has the same AI as its competitors, so access is no longer the advantage. Dan Fitzpatrick sets out the Scarcity Rule and the three skills that grow rarer as AI improves: deciding what is worth asking, judging whether the answer is good enough, and owning what happens next.
