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Forbes
2 hours ago
- Business
- Forbes
3 Career Strategies That Set Visionaries Apart In The AI Age
Artificial intelligence is a persistent force that is revolutionizing various industries, including ... More finance, fashion, logistics, and law. Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and it's rewriting the rules of every industry, from finance to fashion and logistics to law. As machines become smarter and automation transforms the way we work, professionals across sectors face a pivotal question: how do you stay not just relevant, but visionary? According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025, artificial intelligence is poised to reshape the global labor market significantly. The report forecasts that AI will generate approximately 97 million new jobs worldwide by 2025, while simultaneously displacing around 85 million existing roles. These insights are indicative of a major shift in how work is done, reflecting the growing need for new skills and evolving job roles across industries. The AI age doesn't just reward technical skills or resumes filled with buzzwords. It favors those who think ahead, lead with insight and creativity, and know how to combine people-centered leadership with cutting-edge innovation. For those navigating systemic inequities, it's not just about staying relevant. It's about reclaiming power, owning the narrative, and creating spaces where it never existed before. Here are three career strategies that set visionaries apart in the AI-driven economy: 1. Lead With Adaptability, Not Just Experience In the past, experience and tenure often carried the most weight. But in the AI era, adaptability and the ability to communicate your skills clearly and creatively are often more valuable than being deeply rooted in a single role or way of working. Visionaries do not cling to what they have always done. They re-imagine what is possible. They ask questions like, What new problems can I solve? What skills should I unlearn and relearn? They approach their careers not as static ladders but as evolving ecosystems built on learning, experimentation, and reinvention. To thrive in this environment, it is important to stay curious and make strategic connections. Subscribe to cross-industry newsletters, take short-form courses in emerging technologies, and be among the first in your organization to explore new tools. 2. Design Your Career Like a Startup As a visionary, you do not wait for opportunity; you design it. Visionaries shape their careers like product road-maps, identifying market gaps, iterating on their value, and constantly refining their might mean launching a niche consultancy, leading AI transformation initiatives within your company, or building a cross-functional skill set that positions you as a hybrid expert. They are not afraid to pivot, prototype, or establish themselves as category strengthen your position in this AI age, regularly audit your skills, passions, and industry trends. Ask yourself, where do they intersect? Build a personal 'career thesis' that guides your decisions the same way a business plan guides a founder. 3. Integrate Humanity Into Innovation AI is fast, scalable, and data-driven. But visionaries understand what machines lack: context, compassion, ethics, and human intuition. The future of leadership belongs to those who do not just use AI; they humanize it. This means advocating for ethical AI use while remaining people-centered, ensuring equity in innovation, and designing solutions that reflect cultural nuance and community needs. It also means leading teams with emotional intelligence in an increasingly digitized workplace. You will want to position yourself as someone who bridges technology and people—a strategist and leader who speaks code, innovation, and connection. This will make you indispensable in any future-facing team. AI can be a powerful opportunity to shape the industries, roles, and economies of tomorrow. The AI age isn't about competing with machines. It is about elevating what makes us most human: creativity, vision, and adaptability, and using these qualities to lead change and develop new skills and frameworks. AI can be a powerful opportunity to shape the industries, roles, and economies of tomorrow.
Japan Times
3 days ago
- Business
- Japan Times
Miho Koshiba: ‘Wouldn't it be nice if people looked forward to Mondays?'
Miho Koshiba, 43, is the president of Mirai Institute, a think tank focused on the future of work through its flagship coworking space Founded in 2012 and now with seven locations in Tokyo, Koshiba hopes to encourage more people to pave their own professional path. 1. How did you choose the name Midori (green) was my first impression of our first location in Nakameguro, which is covered in ivy. The 'so' comes from Tokiwa-sō, an apartment building that housed aspiring manga artists like Osamu Tezuka. They supported each other's work and eventually made a name for themselves. We want to create a similarly supportive environment. 2. What distinguishes from other coworking spaces? Real estate companies often open coworking spaces to fill empty buildings. As a think tank running a coworking community, our focus is on the future of work and making work feel more enjoyable. Instead of the Sunday scaries, wouldn't it be nice if more people looked forward to Mondays? If people tackled work they (felt invested in), rather than what they felt obliged to do? 3. What's your approach to community-building? Our goal isn't to create a community. We focus on nurturing the conditions: An environment where things are cropping up and everyone is naturally curious about what others are doing. We call this 'fertile chaos.' It's like building neighborhood ties. When small interactions accumulate over time and people gather without a specific purpose, it organically starts to feel like a community. 4. What was your professional background before you founded Mirai Institute? I worked at Citigroup, the securities company. The 2008 financial crisis happened when I was a few years into that job. People were being cut left and right, but work needed to continue, so younger staff got bigger projects. Suddenly, I found myself responsible for some regional banks and traveling to places like Nara to greet executives. 5. How does that experience connect with what you do now? Dealing with stock markets is about the future, predicting how the world will change. Now I focus on the future of work. I worked in stocks across all sectors, so I'm familiar with the business models for most industries, which is helpful for understanding the work that members do. 6. What kinds of people frequent It varies depending on the location. The Nakameguro branch has a lot of creative people who make logos and websites. The Nagatacho branch has some political organizations. It's also very international, not just Japanese people. 7. Have you noticed any cultural differences from this mix of people? In Japan, 'business' and 'design' are seen as totally separate worlds. We categorize things as right-brain versus left-brain, people as humanities versus science types. In the West, there's more overlap. People tend to be more sensitive toward their environment and have an aversion toward utilitarian offices. 8. How do you set up an environment that welcomes both Japanese and non-Japanese members? Our bilingual community organizers know who everyone is, what they like and what they're working on, so they become connectors. We also try not to have many rules, because we don't want it to feel like a school. After participating in a program called Schooling Pad, Miho Koshiba was inspired to create a space that could respond to and cultivate a new way of working in Japan. | Carina Fushimi 9. Did you have a lot of rules in school? At boarding school in Japan, we woke up at 6 a.m., cleaned together, ate breakfast, then went to class. In the U.K., classes started at 8:30 a.m. and everyone got up five minutes before and ran to class. It felt so new to me. 10. How did that school experience shape you? Adults also need a space that feels like a high school common room. In a typical company, everyone has their hands full and sits at their own desk, so there aren't many moments for spontaneous chats. I always liked bunkasai (school festivals) where everyone is working hard towards one event, then celebrating together. 11. What inspired you to think about work differently? I joined a program called Schooling Pad, run by Teruo Kurosaki, who founded the interiors company Idee. Its vision was to nurture interesting people. We listened to talks by people who led unconventional lives, like a creative director-copywriter who loved space and created Cup Noodle's commercials set in space. Hearing their stories expanded my mind. 12. How did get started? After the Schooling Pad program ended, Kurosaki-san and I continued discussing what would improve society and we landed on the idea of a think tank. Then the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hit. Kurosaki-san called and said, 'Don't you think it's time?' I had been wanting to quit my job, so the timing felt right. An acquaintance found the Nakameguro property, but it was too spacious to rent just for ourselves. We figured work styles are bound to change, so why not turn it into a coworking space? 13. How has freelancing shifted in the past 10 years? A lot has changed. Organizations like the Freelance Association exist now. Having a side hustle is common. Lifetime employment has largely disappeared. People need others — not just transactional relationships, but real ties. I hope people can find that at 14. You are based in Kyoto now. How is that going? It's a completely different environment, so it's been refreshing. The Kamo River is beautiful. People still have the mindset that Kyoto is the center of Japan — that the emperor is visiting Tokyo temporarily. I was initially concerned about managing the company remotely, but the team members have really grown and I come to Tokyo every week. 15. What does your typical day look like? I wake up around 6 a.m., pack lunch for my middle schooler, then drop off my youngest at day care. I start work around 7:30 a.m. I usually join weekly meetings for each location and plan our new projects. 16. Were you creative as a child? Not at all. But I loved books and I still read a lot. I recently enjoyed 'Herushinki Seikatsu no Renshū' ('The Practice of Life in Helsinki') by sociologist Sara Park. Qualities like extroversion and meticulousness are seen as personality traits in Japan, whereas in Finland they're treated as skills to develop. 17. What TV shows do you watch? I love FBI and CIA-type shows. With work and parenting, things rarely wrap up neatly so it's satisfying to watch a mystery get resolved within a 45-minute episode. 18. What's your personal motto? Identify the essence of things without getting swayed by the surface. 19. Do you have plans to open a branch overseas? I want to. We attract a lot of people from abroad, so it would also be nice to create a place overseas where Tokyo-based members can visit. 20. Where do you see going? Our core goal to make work more enjoyable hasn't changed. Beyond that, I'd love to see more independent people paving their own path. It doesn't have to become mainstream. I just think society is more interesting when people pursue what moves them.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Science
- Yahoo
AI could ‘devastate' Earth's population down to the size of the UK by 2300, expert warns: ‘People really don't have a clue'
Are we facing tech-stinction? An Oklahoma tech expert predicted that artificial intelligence will become so omnipresent on the planet that Earth — with a current population of about 8 billion — will have just 100 million people left by the year 2300. 'It's going to be devastating for society and world society,' Subhash Kak, who teaches computer science at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, told the Sun. 'I think people really don't have a clue.' However, the 'Age of Artificial Intelligence' author doesn't think this dystopian future will come about via nuclear war or other 'Terminator'-evoking scenarios, but rather through replacing our jobs. 'Computers or robots will never be conscious, but they will be doing literally all that we do because most of what we do in our lives can be replaced,' said Kak. Currently, techsperts fear that AI is rendering humanity obsolete in every sector, from law to academia and even romance. As a result, they suggest, birth rates will plunge as people will be hesitant to have kids who are destined to be unemployed, especially given the exorbitant costs of rearing children. Without people making babies, the global population will suffer an apocalyptic blow, Kak theorized. 'There are demographers who are suggesting that as a consequence, the world population will collapse, and it could go down to as low as just 100 million people on the entire planet Earth in 2300 or 2380,' he warned of the shocking drop. With only that many people left on the planet — which Kak noted was just over the population of the UK — great metropolises such as London and New York will quickly turn into ghost towns, according to the professor. 'I have all the data in the book. This is not just my personal opinion,' said the computer scientist, who claims this population shrinkflation is happening before our eyes. 'People have stopped having babies. Europe, China, Japan, and the most rapid fall in population right now is taking place in Korea,' Kak declared. 'Now, I'm not saying that these trends will continue, but it's very hard to reverse them because a lot of people have children for a variety of reasons.' He added, 'One is, of course, social. In the back of your mind, you have a sense of what the future is going to be like.' Kak invoked the warnings of SpaceX's Elon Musk, who has been quite vocal about plummeting birth rates and population decline and has used it as a rationale for colonizing Mars. 'That's why Musk is saying maybe humans should go to space, maybe build colonies elsewhere, so that should such a tragedy hit Earth, then it could be reseeded,' said Kak. And while he's not sure whether humanity will go extinct, he said that 'what is absolutely certain is that there is a population collapse occurring right before our eyes.'
Forbes
5 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
3 Lessons From 23,000 Gen Z And Millennials About The Future Of Work
Over 23,000 results pinpoint the future of work. At this point, saying the workplace is changing isn't exactly groundbreaking news. Technology is evolving rapidly and often dominates the conversation. However, an equally significant transformation is unfolding in the composition of the workforce and the future of work. By 2030, Gen Z and millennials are projected to make up nearly three-quarters of the global workforce. Alongside their growing presence comes a shift in expectations, values, and priorities. Deloitte's 14th annual Gen Z and Millennial Survey, based on responses from over 23,000 participants across 44 countries, makes this shift crystal clear. One of the most revealing changes is that only 6% of Gen Z reported that their primary career goal was reaching a senior leadership position. That's not from a lack of ambition, as growth still matters. Instead, it's a reallocation of what success means, as promotion isn't the only metric of success. As it pertains to the future of work with these groups, here are three strategic priorities for leaders looking to attract, retain, and inspire Gen Z and millennial talent. 1. Redesign And Double Down On Your Workplace Environment As more companies bring employees back into the office, leaders must reconsider not only the quality of their physical space but also the emotional and cultural environment that surrounds it. Although employees who feel supported in their mental health report greater satisfaction and happiness at work, only 52% of Gen Z and 58% of millennials rate their mental well-being as good or very good. Perhaps shockingly, 40% of Gen Z and 34% of millennials report feeling stressed or anxious most of the time. At first glance, this might suggest these generations want to be coddled. However, the opposite is true: one of the most effective ways to improve well-being isn't to overemphasize comfort. It's to facilitate meaningful growth. Mentorship and skill-building are among the top priorities. According to the Deloitte survey, 86% of Gen Z and 84% of millennials believe mentorship is critical, while 89% emphasize the importance of on-the-job learning. When employees feel they're growing, both personally and professionally, it strengthens both their performance and retention. 2. Steer The AI Ship And Reduce Uncertainty AI is quickly becoming embedded in every corner of work. While it unlocks efficiency and innovation, it also fuels uncertainty. A millennial respondent captured this well: "My biggest concern about the impact of GenAI on society and the workforce is job displacement." Despite widespread adoption, as 57% of Gen Z and 56% of millennials already use GenAI regularly at work, a sense of uneasiness remains. Sixty-three percent worry AI will eliminate jobs altogether. Sixty-six percent say they want roles that are "safe from AI disruption." However, the reality is that every role, top to bottom, will likely be reshaped by AI in some form. In fact, 74% of Gen Z and 77% of millennials believe AI will significantly change how they work within the following year. While AI is powerful, it can't replicate everything. Soft skills, such as empathy, communication, and leadership, remain crucial, and this sentiment is shared by 86% of respondents, who believe they're essential to their future success. CEOs can effectively integrate AI, but it doesn't have to come at the expense of human development. Balancing AI adoption with investment in emotional intelligence, communication, and adaptability is key. Leaders should also be transparent about how AI will impact specific roles and provide resources, such as upskilling programs, that cover both technical and soft skills. 3. Treat Purpose Like A Business Strategy Salary still matters, as people need to cover necessities such as food, shelter, and family expenses, among other daily essentials. However, purpose is fast becoming an equally powerful driver for talent retention and recruitment. More than four in ten Gen Z (41%) and millennial (46%) employees say their primary job is core to their identity, second only to their families and friends. And 89% of Gen Z and 92% of millennials say purpose is key to job satisfaction and well-being. The "trifecta" of modern career happiness: money, meaning, and well-being isn't just a personal ideal. It's a recruitment and retention lever. Nearly one-third of Gen Z and 17% of millennials plan to leave their current employer within the next two years, often due to a lack of alignment with their values. Forty-four percent of Gen Z and 45% of millennials have left their roles because they felt they lacked a sense of purpose. And over 40% have turned down offers due to a mismatch in values. CEOs and other senior leaders can start to mitigate this issue by embedding purpose into how work is assigned, evaluated, and communicated. When employees can see how their day-to-day tasks contribute to something larger, loyalty deepens, and well-being improves. The Future of Work For Millennials And Gen Z The future of work isn't just about technology. It's about the people shaping it. Millennials and Gen Z value alignment over authority, growth over hierarchy, and impact over image. For CEOs and other leaders, the challenge is clear, but so is the opportunity. Those who evolve will build organizations that not only keep up with change but also lead it.
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
From AI to hydrogen planes: My Wildest Prediction second season wrap-up
The second season of My Wildest Prediction has come to an end. Over the last eight months, we have delved into the business world through the words of entrepreneurs, researchers, futurists and experts from around the globe. Our goal has been to understand the challenges facing our economy and society, exploring how they affect our lives now and in the years to come. My Wildest Prediction is a podcast series from Euronews Business where we dare to imagine the future with business and tech visionaries. Among other topics, we discussed work. Some guests, like bestselling author Bruce Daisley, painted a pessimistic picture, predicting that 'work will get worse before it gets better'. Others, like futurist Dom Price, offered a more radical point of view, arguing that we will abandon the productivity myth — the idea that constantly working is the key to success. Overall, our guests agreed that work will become increasingly mobile, with entrepreneur Karoli Hindriks arguing that 'passports will be obsolete' and marketing expert Rory Sutherland saying that people will adopt a nomadic lifestyle. We also explored the future of our cities and our relationship with the environment. Urbanist Greg Clark predicted that by 2080, there will be more than 10 billion people on Earth, with 90% living in cities. Additionally, explorer Bertrand Piccard forecast that hydrogen planes will fly commercially by 2035. And of course, artificial intelligence (AI) was extensively discussed in our podcast and remained a polarising topic. Human resources expert Patty McCord believes 'AI will not be the big scary thing we think', while others like professor Scott Galloway predicted that AI will fuel US domestic terrorism. This is just a glimpse of the predictions shared during our season. Watch the wrap-up and listen to the episodes on YouTube or your favourite audio platforms.
