Future of work: why soft skills are important
summary
Claims that collaboration is the top soft skill to pair with technical chops, citing LinkedIn’s 2020 top five soft skills: creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability and emotional intelligence (new), and hard skills where blockchain jumps to #1. Uses hackathons as evidence: ~60–90 attended and a NASA Space Apps event with 250 people produced an origami ISS solution and a dry‑ice jet‑propelled rocket prototype that worked. Recommends practical tooling like GitHub project boards and discussions to unite coders, designers and innovators.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction to future of work
- 1:22Speaker introduction and background
- 2:47The fourth industrial revolution
- 5:36Will robots take your job?
- 8:22Humans vs machines quote
- 9:44Top hard skills for 2020
- 14:56Top soft skills for 2020
- 17:03Four pillars of DevOps
- 19:28Why collaboration matters
- 21:55Coding as a team sport
- 22:37Hackathon roles and dream teams
- 26:02Cross-team collaboration benefits
- 28:06Real-world collaboration example
- 30:31Tools for collaboration
- 32:17Future of work and soft skills
- 32:38Call to action for better collaboration
- 33:19Q&A session begins
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