Reflections 1st February

On Toast

Have you ever done that thing where you turn up at a party in fancy dress to find everybody else in dinner suits? Or perhaps the other way round? That’s what it feels like at the moment, talking to a lot of people about the changes that we’re facing, whether the subject is AI, wider technology, the changes in geopolitics, climate change, or quite often an exotic cocktail of all of them.

The conversation about how we must adapt, change our business model, and get new qualifications. Cuddling the comfort blanket, hoping that, if we do, when the current turbulence subsides, we’ll be fine on the other side of it. Then we get to the part of the conversation where we recognise that the things we’ve been used to having as building blocks to create our careers are toast.

That is when the conversation really starts.

Most of the time, these conversations are with people who want to have them but don’t know where to start. The conversations are uncomfortable at first, but people are prepared for th…