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Podcast: Leadership Article Review Podcast
Episode: The Future of Work is Forcing a Leadership Evolution, by Jonathan H. Westover PhD
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Abstract: This article explores the major trends transforming the future of work through technological advancements like AI and robotics, globalization enabling distributed teams, and changing workforce demographics as younger generations and diversity alter the makeup of companies, necessitating that up to 375 million workers may need to switch jobs or acquire new skills by 2030. In response, the future of work demands new approaches to leadership that move beyond vision and problem-solving skills to emphasize soft abilities like engagement, empowerment, facilitation, and expertise in digital transformation, diversity/inclusion, lifelong learning, and virtual team management to match contemporary flat, adaptive organizational structures...