Good MSM summary on the future of employment - who succeeds, who fails - by John Harris of @Guardian. And another reminder of how important it is to combine creativity and social soft skills with experience of data analytics. The future belongs to Photoshop and Excel!
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Disrupt, adapt, flourish
As Haskel and Westlake see it, the future belongs to people who can thrive in an ethereal, unpredictable world, and endlessly adapt – “product managers, lawyers, business development people, design engineers, marketers, head-hunters, and so forth”. Or, put another way, “people who combine decent data-analytical skills with the soft skills needed to broker relationships inside and outside their own company”.
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