A few weeks ago I put up a poll on LinkedIn where I asked people what their top challenge or concern was for 2024 from a leadership perspective. This was the #1 choice by a far and by a clear margin. External business factors are having a profound impact on internal leadership approaches. Never before have we seen external factors play such a crucial role internally.
Over a decade ago (in 2013) I wrote an article for Forbes where I explored how the world of work is evolving. I broke things down by past and future and looked at everything from corporate structure to where employees would work.
A few days ago Deloitte released their massive 2024 Global Human Capital Trends Report which is a whopping 122 pages long. It’s based on a survey of 14,000 employees from 95 counties around the world. I spent a few hours going through it and pulling out the most important highlights so that you don’t have to.
There’s a lot of debate and concern about the impact AI will have on jobs.
Are the robots out to replace all humans and take over our jobs? Not necessarily.
How we work today is drastically different than it was even just a few years ago. Even before things like COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter, work has been undergoing a dramatic shift.
From a high level, there are 3 main areas to pay attention to.
Leadership has always been challenging, but the future of work will bring fresh challenges to future leaders. Over the next decade, leaders will have to face obstacles and challenges not faced by current or past leaders. But what are those challenges? As part of the research for my new book, The Future Leader, I interviewed more than 140 top CEOs from around the world and surveyed more than 14,000 LinkedIn users. One of the questions I asked was about the challenges future leaders would face. From their varied and insightful responses, I broke the challenges down to two main areas: futurize and humanize.