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The Art of "Reinventing Yourself" in an Automated World!
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The Future of Work
As more and more jobs are eliminated due to technology, we need to keep reinventing ourselves and stay in a permanent state of transition, to be relevant in the future.
The Art of Re-inventing ourselves has 3 key factors:
- Thinking "different"
- Working with varied partners
- Using Technology for creativity and for the pursuit of happiness
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The Big Challenge
In a fast-changing world, everyone needs to live in a “permanent state of transition” or “reinvention.”
We need to continuously adapt ourselves to unlock the opportunities and meet the challenges of our new technology-driven world.
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Thinking Different
The ability to recognize what has changed, accept that new reality and then adapt to it is the essence of “thinking different.”
A worldwide Digital Transformation has changed a lot of elements of our lives, including life expectancy, skill-set requirements, and new kinds of economies. Thinking different is a must-have approach to see new possibilities in the world of tomorrow.
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Working with Varied Partners
Teaming up with different, less than obvious partners, forming new and unlikely bonds, developing new ways of collaboration and finding uncharted and unknown ways of branching out is a definitive way of staying relevant and creative.
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Use Technology To Be Creative And Happy
Technology should ultimately be an enabler to enhance our personal lives in a better way.
Technology is best used when it complements us and enriches our lives in a positive way. We should be more happy, more creative and have spare time to spend doing what we love.
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Communicate your leadership signature
A leadership signature: Who you are as a leader and how you view and approach the job.
- Discover your leadership signature by asking how you lead day by day. Are you task or people focussed?
- Ask people who work with you how they would describe your leadership.
- Consider the impact you have. Are you changing the culture? Driving results?
Be a sense maker
Sensemaking refers to the process of creating meaning out of the chaotic world around us.
We need to make sense when something in our environment seems to have changed. We collect data, learn from others, look for patterns to create a new map of the landscape. Then we experiment with new solutions to see how it will respond to this new environment.
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Skills Needed In Digital Leaders
- Work together, complement each other, and function as a team.
- Able to operate on and enable environments that are more dynamic, team-centric, and connected.
- Lead and build teams and partner with the broader ecosystems, keep people connected and engaged, and drive a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Lead a workforce that includes contractors, the contingent workforce, and crowd talent.
- Understand how different business functions, industries, and technologies come together to form solutions.
- Comfortable and competent with risk-taking.
Demographics And Leadership Destiny
Millennials expect to be developed via opportunities, mentoring, and stretch assignments. However that is hard to come by in top-heavy companies.
Most millennials think their roles provide little development while most companies report they have excellent or adequate programs for Millennials.
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A Changing Work Culture
The work culture is changing globally. On one side we have large, established companies which are the gravest offenders. They have deeply entrenched hierarchies, rules, regulations, and ...
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Companies are recognizing that the old way may amplify the employee's resentment to the conformance and the 'fitting in', and that they must upgrade their culture.
New Choices in the Old Way
The traditional career path now offers new kinds of digital opportunities as new technologies offer new possibilities and are also streamlining the old operation process.
- As Big Tech expands further, new innovations will transform many current jobs.
- It is a good idea to keep looking, keep learning, and be ready to pivot.