The following is an exclusive excerpt from the book “Tomorrow’s Jobs Today: Wisdom and Career Advice from Thought Leaders in AI, Big Data, Blockchain, the Internet of Things, Privacy, and More” available soon from John Hunt Publishing.
The convergence of technology and the rule of law is expected to intensify over the coming years. It’s a paradigm shift that will force organizations of all sizes, private and public, across all verticals, to balance a world ripe with innovation with an evolving universe of risk and regulatory pressure.Employers and their workforces will be inclined to adapt to this dynamic new digital landscape in their personal and professional lives. Like every era before it, the individuals who lead the way will separate themselves from the pack by identifying, engaging in, and fostering the right opportunities wherever they reveal themselves. They understand that identifying gaps is one key to seizing those opportunities.
One of the most amusing success stories exemplifying this point comes from the first part of the twentieth century. It involves a weary soldier returning from World War I. As the story goes, the GI was tired but also thrilled to be alive after countless friends had been killed, and so much of the world he knew destroyed. He was discharged in California and put on a Pullman train packed with other vets traveling from San Francisco to the East Coast. Like his fellow soldiers, the young man enjoyed his share of spirits in the bar car, and by the time they crossed over into New Mexico, most of the train’s passengers were quite drunk. Naturally, overconsumption can lead to brawling, and that’s what occurred by early noon. He held his own for a while, but eventually, he was thrown from the caboose about 15 miles outside of Albuquerque. In those days, that was the middle of nowhere.
If that wasn’t bad enough, he only had enough money to buy himself a bus ticket to finish the last leg of the trip and maybe half a sandwich. Slightly drunk and out of luck, he began walking down the road parallel to the railroad towards town. As he sobered up along the path, he started noticing a lot of broken-down sedans, pickup trucks, and roadsters abandoned along the highway, likely having run out of gas. Remember, this was 1918, before GPS and call boxes, let alone gas stations… in the desert! Well, this young man thought a lot about those beat-up clunkers, and in between each one, as he made his way to civilization, he began thinking about what the vehicles represented. By the time he finally made it to town, he had come up with one hell of an idea.
Despite being parched and stinking to high heaven, he abandoned his plans to purchase a bus ticket and used what was left in his pocket to put a payment down on a tow truck. The next day he filled up the tank and set back along that road he’d traversed the afternoon before. Well, wouldn’t you know it? He picked up every darn one of those lonely jalopies and dragged them back to a lot he’d rented from the same lessor who extended him credit for the tow truck.
Less than a decade later that GI was the third-largest scrap metal salesman in the Southwest United States. By the time he died, about the richest man in Albuquerque. He never quite made it home to Boston, but he did learn first-hand about how your journey is often more enjoyable, and profitable than arriving at your destination.
So, what are your broken-down jalopies? What are the business processes, products, or teams you see broken down and in need of repair or improvement around your organization or community? How can you, like that GI, turn a real crap situation into one that benefits not just you, but ultimately the world around you? Can you identify the gaps in between the stops along the way to your goals? Are you ready to seize the day? Are you thrilled to be alive like that weary soldier the day he was thrown from the train?
Rafael Moscatel, CIPM, CRM, IGP, is the Managing Director of Compliance and Privacy Partners. He has developed large-scale information management, privacy and digital transformation programs for Fortune 500 companies such as Paramount Pictures and Farmers Insurance. Contact him at www.capp-llc.com or follow him on Twitter @rafael_moscatel.
Due to the impact of COVID-19, the publication of Tomorrow’s Jobs Today has been pushed slightly back to April of 2021. Despite this, we have seen the proof of the manuscript and cannot wait to share this important study of modern careers with the world! Stay tuned!
Wisdom and Career Advice from Thought Leaders in AI, Big Data, Blockchain, the Internet of Things, Privacy and More
Discover leadership secrets and technology strategies being pioneered by today’s most innovative business executives and renowned brands across the globe in this entertaining collection of interviews and stories exploring new careers of the Information Age. (ISBN 978-1-78904-561-1)
Design your career for tomorrow with wisdom from leaders whose shoulders you stand on today.
This collection of in-depth profiles featuring Smart City CIOs, Data Protection Officers, Blockchain CEO’s, Informatics Doctors and other diverse, skilled professionals gives readers first-hand insight into what tomorrow’s jobs look like today. The hands-on experiences, subject matter expertise and measured job advice shared within these pages demonstrate how identifying opportunities, setting the right cadence and building strong relationships are the essential ingredients to unlocking your future’s potential.
This book is for the new graduate, the professional between jobs and the doting parents desperate to get their “brilliant” but lazy kid out of the basement. It’s also for senior corporate leaders seeking an intimate understanding of the changes abounding in their organizations. It’s for the manager who wants to inspire and encourage professional development. And it’s for every knowledge worker out there who wants to leverage technology and information governance to reduce risk, generate revenue, and improve customer experiences.
Tomorrow’s Jobs Today is not for those who cower in the face of robots, coding, and automation. It’s a resource for people like you who recognize that the jobs of the future are very much here today and ours to adapt to. By absorbing the perspectives, challenges, and solutions of those deeply in love and accomplished in these new careers, we can help ourselves, our friends and our employees transform anxiety over a job search, job loss or just the winds of change into hope, understanding, and opportunity.
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*The opinions expressed by the interviewees in this book are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of their employer.
Discover leadership secrets and technology strategies being pioneered by today’s most innovative business executives and renowned brands across the globe in this entertaining collection of interviews and stories exploring new careers of the Information Age.*
What’s the book about?
This collection of in-depth profiles featuring Smart City CIOs, Data Protection Officers, Blockchain CEO’s, Informatics Doctors and other diverse, skilled professionals gives readers first-hand insight into what tomorrow’s jobs look like today. The hands-on experiences, subject matter expertise, and measured job advice shared within these pages demonstrate how identifying opportunities, setting the right cadence, and building strong relationships are the essential ingredients to unlocking your future’s potential.
Who is the book for?
This book is for the new graduate, the professional between jobs and the doting parents desperate to get their “brilliant” but lazy kid out of the basement. It’s also for senior corporate leaders seeking an intimate understanding of the changes abounding in their organizations. It’s for the manager who wants to inspire and encourage professional development. And it’s for every knowledge worker out there who wants to leverage technology and information governance to reduce risk, generate revenue, and improve customer experiences.
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What People Are Saying About Tomorrow’s Jobs Today
In today’s data-driven, fast-changing world, Tomorrow’s Jobs Today gives business leaders a solid overview of many complex technology trends. This book helps surface many of the issues a business leader needs to be aware of and provides food for thought on how they might be navigated as we head into a new decade. –Gregory L. Steinhauer, President, American Life
Information is the currency that fuels and funds the Digital Transformation journey. Tomorrow’s Jobs Today manages to capture a set of leadership perspectives that, while diverse, share an essential characteristic for the future of transformative work: leveraging information as one’s most valuable asset. –Peggy Winton, CEO, Association for Intelligent Information Management AIIM
If you want to stay successful, you have to embrace and adapt to changes. Tomorrow’s Jobs Today shows you how those challenges can be both enlightening and empowering. –Jim Dodson, SVP, Iron Mountain
In a world often seized by ever-accelerating change, Tomorrow’s Jobs Today has brilliantly identified, captured, and recounted liberating insights for success from a broad range of global information governance and technology professionals. There will always be challenges, but for those willing to look, the opportunity is abundant. The Information Age remains an ever-growing frontier awaiting each new wave of pioneers. –Seth Williams, President, MER Conference
This is an empowering and beautifully written book that will surely guide the reader to find a place in this quickly changing Information Age, where they can thrive and contribute to the greater good. –Dr. Angela Bair Schmider, M.S., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
The authors bring together the voices of leading thinkers, exploring the critical themes that will dominate the years to come. Entertaining interviews reveal the best paths forward for professional development and the impending social, political, and ethical challenges of tomorrow. This is an important book. –Alex Panagides, CEO, mxHero
Tomorrow’s Jobs Today brings together an impressive group of professionals sharing their wisdom and career advice from the cutting edge of technological advancement today. These insights will inevitably bolster your career path, and the combined knowledge of so many brilliant folks in one volume is staggering. I recommend this book for anyone who is pushing or looking to push their organizations into the future. –Nick Inglis, Executive Director of Content & Programming, ARMA International
Stepping away from the mush of data that sometimes arrives through surveys, Tomorrow’s Jobs Today goes straight to the people creating the future world of work. Read this book; go interview a few visionaries yourself; help shape the world to come. –Andy Watson, Head of School, Albuquerque Academy
*The opinions expressed by the interviewees in this book are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of their employer.
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