Category Archives: FutureOfWork@Risk – Greg Hutchins

#405 – AI AND THE FUTURE OF WORK – LYNN PARKER ET. AL AUTHORS

Featured

Posted on by
Reply

From steam power and electricity to computers and the internet, technological advancements have always disrupted labor markets, pushing out some jobs while creating others. Artificial intelligence remains something of a misnomer – the smartest computer systems still don’t actually know anything – but the technology has reached an inflection point where it’s poised to affect new classes of jobs: artists and knowledge workers. Continue reading →

#404 – COMING ROBOT – APOCALYPSE – GREG HUTCHINS

Featured

Posted on by
Reply

Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure you do things differently from everyone else.
Sara Blakely – Founder of Spanx

Robots are coming is a common refrain in Tech Futures. Robots and smart machines are doing a lot of our work and will do a lot more over the next few years. Take a look below:

• Robot revolution will create 97 million new jobs over the next several years.
• Machines will do 52% of worker tasks by 2025.
• Startups are re-visioning the entire food chain: food delivery services (drones), grocery stores (no VUCANs), packaging (3-D machines), and restaurants (food printing). Continue reading →

#403 – CEO DISRUPTION – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

Featured

Posted on by
Reply

Lengthy reigns at the top may be the next thing to get disrupted.
Carol Ryan – Wall Street Journal Writer

What’s the CEOs role in VUCA time? What do you think? According to the Wall Street Journal. “Point people to the light at the end of the tunnel” (Crash Course in Crisis Management’, Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2020.) Continue reading →

#402 – ‘CAREER PORTFOLIOING ISN’T JUST A WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LAYOFFS. IT’S THE NEW VERSION OF CLIMBING THE CORPORATE LADDER – SCOTT SONENSHEIN

Featured

Posted on by
Reply

One thing that’s become clear in the past few tumultuous—and for many, traumatic—years is that it’s easy to feel like there is no control in our lives. Control is a basic psychological need that helps people feel like they have agency, from how they live to where they work. One area where people have tried to wrestle back control is around work. Continue reading →

#402 – THE IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP IN A VUCA WORLD – PETER BLOKLAND

Featured

Posted on by
Reply

We live in turbulent times. The twenty-first century has already seen many crises. These were each time accompanied by the ups and downs of the global economy that go with it. It started with the bursting of a dot.com bubble (2000), which caused many companies to go bankrupt at the beginning of this century and was followed a year later by an attack on the World Trade Center in New York (2001). Continue reading →