Careers in the Age of Accelerations: Crafted Roadmap or Drunkard's Walk?
summary
Predicts that by 2030 roughly half of today’s jobs vanish and half will be new, and recommends navigating that with the Ikigai framework (what you love, what you’re good at, what you can be paid for, what the world needs). Uses assessments (StrengthsFinder, DISC/Insights, Management 3.0 moving motivators, 360 feedback), career-mapping and rapid experiments to find paid roles; highlights HBR’s future roles composer creator coach and advises side gigs, role swaps and learning loops. Built a boutique coaching practice, PPL Coach, to test the approach.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46Speaker background
- 6:49Career paths in acceleration
- 9:18Career lattice metaphor
- 11:49Accelerating change impact
- 16:06Human vs tech adaptability
- 17:14Reassessing career with ikigai
- 20:25Understanding ikigai
- 22:34Discovering passion
- 26:00Paid work in changing world
- 29:57Future knowledge worker roles
- 32:26Passion and profession intersection
- 34:14Career experimentation
- 37:29Steve Jobs on meaningful work
- 38:35Career purpose alignment
- 40:03Q&A
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