The Change Alchemist

Jeff Schwartz, Deloitte’s Future of Work leader, author of WORK DISRUPTED with action plans for 2021


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Jeff Schwartz, Principal, Deloitte Consulting provides insights from his new book "Work Disrupted" in this episode.
Schwartz teaches everyone invested in the future of work how to:
Welcome AI:  Historically, technology has created more jobs than it has taken; it’s time to embrace this and create value by empowering people to work with machines.
Value a diversity of work arrangements:  Part-time, contract, freelance, gig, crowd—integrating these talent models will benefit your career and community.
Build on what the pandemic has taught us:  Expect to continue to work anywhere, anytime, with anyone. Use this to your advantage and
Embrace new capabilities to lead teams: Smart leaders will shift away from a narrow vision on cost and efficiency to an expanded one of growth, innovation, and meaning.
Reimagine careers as experiences: Prepare to adapt, reskill, upskill, and develop a portfolio that combines education, work, and personal pursuits, throughout your lifetime.
Jeff is a senior consulting partner and is a recognized global advisor and thought leader in the future of work. He has been a consulting partner for 25 years and he has extensive experience in workforce and workplace transformation, work redesign, and human capital issues in global and growth markets. He has lived in and led practices in the US, India, Russia, Belgium, Israel, and Kenya. He currently leads the US Consulting Future of Work research and practice; he is the co-founder and was the US lead partner from 2016-2019 for Deloitte Catalyst in Tel Aviv (the US-Israel Innovation Tech Terminal), and he has been the global editor and senior researcher for 10 years of Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends report, one of the world’s leading annual reports on the future of the workforce, organizations and HR, which he started in 2011. He has authored and contributed to more than 40 articles for the Wall Street Journal, the Deloitte Review, the MIT Sloan Management Review, the Rotman Management Review (at the University of Toronto), and Wired Magazine.
1.  Deloitte.com website including the introduction download.
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/human-capital/articles/digital-workforce-transformation-roadmap-welcome.htm
2. Also, let’s include a link to the 2021 Human Capital Trends report in the podcast description.
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/human-capital-trends.html
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