Mark Abbott

So the seventh age of work was the age of information.

You're all aware of that, right?

Part of the age of information was we became overwhelmed.

We didn't know what information to believe in, what not to believe in.

We were talking a bit earlier, someone was talking a bit earlier about the Gen Z wanting to understand things.

Well, we all want to understand things a lot better than we have been, right?

We want to understand what's real, what's not real.

This is why I talk about useful information.

So I deeply believe that COVID started this transition

And that ChatGPT has accelerated it.

And by the way, big transitions like this do not happen without a lot of turmoil.

Transitions like this threaten the status quo.

There's status quo all over the place, all over the world.

And if you think about some of the anxiety and some of the stuff that's going on, that's what we're going through right now.

There's a major transformation taking place in the world right now.

And we need to, as leaders, we need to be able to confidently walk our way through and take our organizations through this major transformation.

So I think it's really important to understand what's going on.

And that's why I've spent the last four years writing this book that hopefully will be out the very beginning of next year.

So trends, future of learning, lifelong learning.

Skill-based credentials, decentralization of knowledge, letting people move at their pace.