Sketchy Ideas

Sketchy Ideas Episode 74: Year-End Reflections & Predictions: a Board-side Chat

Listen Later

:30  Intro

  • Topic: Year-End Reflections & Predictions: a Board-side Chat

    • 4:00 Sponsors

    • Cream City Marketing
      • www.creamcitymarketing.com
      • Spearity
        • www.Spearity.com
        • Learned a lot this year
          • Lots of reflection
          • Look at what was great and negative
          • This year has been especially challenging because of covid

            • 8:10 Next year and moving forward

            • Next year we want to spend time diving into data
            • You need to be aware of the data
            • We are truly a globalized economy now
              • Policy shifts are happening
              • Crypto
              • Space travel
              • When you look at large media everyone has something to say that is backed by a larger agenda
                • But looking at what comes out of doing things like going to space
                • Will be interesting to see what will happen with monetary values
                  • How people are managing cash flow
                  • How to manage personal money

                    • 12:10 Predictions for next year

                    • Age of paper checks are on their way out
                      • Two years and that’s gone
                      • Delivery and food → pushback on uber eats, door dash, etc.
                      • If you can’t improve your own margins, you will be left behind
                        • Caught in worker shortage
                        • Delivery markets

                          • 16: 00 more positions than available workers

                          • staffing , driver shortage is at a peak
                            • Need to figure out something different
                            • Rallying cry
                            • Need to lay to rest some of our old ways
                              • Hard to do
                              • Things were great once but they are not coming back
                              • There has to be a shift in where people are going to find work
                                • Lots of sexy jobs out there
                                • But also been a rise in people where it doesn’t help people move forward
                                • Skilled work is where a lot of shortages are and important to dissect why that is

                                  • 20: 00 Robots

                                  • Robots are going to need to become a part of daily life
                                    • It won’t get rid of jobs
                                    • Train people on how to prepare, manage, and maintain these machines
                                      • Just different work
                                      • Law conservation of jobs
                                        • Can’t create or destroy
                                        • Just change their makeup
                                        • Shift your need to not how many people do I need to how many specialists do I need
                                          • Micros are easier to fill
                                          • Challenges with this too
                                            • Ex: welder

                                              • Full Show Notes Here

                                              ...more
                                              View all episodesView all episodes
                                              Download on the App Store
                                              Sketchy IdeasBy Sketchy Ideas Show
                                              • 5
                                              • 5
                                              • 5
                                              • 5
                                              • 5

                                              5

                                              1 ratings