Daily Inspiration - The Future of Work: "The future is not won simply by knowing what comes next, but by how fast you can deploy a team to meet the challenge!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
A client approached me for a keynote that went into the topic of the future of work.
He didn't want the typical focus found with the topic, which tends to come from a typical HR focus.
He wanted to know how to relate future trends to the future skills needed to align with those trends.
Companies know they must upskill their workforce to deal with the trends that define tomorrow, and yet they believe their team is not ready. This means that while a forward-looking 85% of employers plan to prioritize upskilling for this new reality, their own managers are sounding the alarm, with 64% believing their employees cannot keep pace with future skill needs.
In other words, the workforce is not ready for the future!
This led me to create a new structure for a keynote topic - Solving the Acceleration Paradox: A New Playbook for the Future of Work. The full description is over on my Signature Keynotes page.
In the midst of this, I came across this fascinating Wall Street Journal article late last night. This is precisely the type of path forward that I'm building into the keynote. THIS is the future of work!
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Inside the Bank Where Almost Every Employee Is a Gig Worker Wall Street Journal, Oct. 6, 2025
At Standard Chartered, a ‘talent marketplace’ lets workers take on in-house ‘gigs’ to smooth the way for AI adoption. And the idea is gaining traction elsewhere as the technology upends workforces.
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All of this got me thinking, and I began writing this post - but I originally started with this idea. "The future is not won by what your team knows now, but by how fast it learns what it needs to know next!”
And then I realized I was on to something!
Read the rest of the post for more!
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Futurist Jim Carroll first explored the topic of the 'future of work' in his 1997 book, Surviving the Information Age.
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Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-the-future-of-work-the-future-is-not-won-simply-by-knowing-what-comes-next-but-by-how-fast-you-can-deploy-a-team-to-meet-the-challenge/