I recently did a small poll in my LinkedIn network to get opinions on the future of different types of professionals.
- Generalists: This tops the polls with over 50%. Generalists are usually professionals with a broad level of skills across functions. Put in another way, they are like project managers or product managers in a small company. I guess that generalists believe with advances in AI, they will be on the top in managing various expert AIs under them.
- Specialists: That's only 15% of people's vote. Specialists have in-depth knowledge of a specific niche as you would know. Think of a data scientist in a team of analytics and data. Again, my guess is people believe the future will be of deep experts working in sync with AI. Probably, they think AI will take up the easiest of jobs of managing and being a messenger (that's what people think btw, it's not me ;) )
- T Shaped: On no.2 with a close to fourth of people who polled. A T-shaped professional combines the depth of expertise in one specific area (the vertical bar of the T) with a broad range of knowledge and skills across multiple disciplines (the horizontal bar of the T). Think of a marketing strategist with deep expertise in digital marketing but very solid knowledge to work across strategy,social, content, user experience, data, and analytics.
The last one goes to Machine ( Let's talk about in-depth some other time)
In my career, I started as a generalist working as a Management Trainee, and then joined a start-up. Unknowingly, to be honest, I started building deep expertise in many areas across marketing with a focus on digital and technology building into a T. And as I moved forward, it became more like M -shaped. M shaped is more like building multiple expertise areas with other knowledge across.
No guesses for where my Vote is :)
PS : Views experesed are personal
Ux Envangilist :: ex-Director (UX/UI) Cardekho :: AI Enthusiast :: NID Alumni
9 个月I feel the people who will survive in this new revolution are Jugaadis(who know all the hacks) capable of using various tools to do things quickly. They can even do the work that only specialists can do. We can see from the example of creating artwork and content for example. If you know the tools you can make it with GenAI. You need to know the high-level rules for delivering something, skills will be provided by the software.
I implement plug-and-play freelancer systems into high growth companies
9 个月i have a feeling it will be a mix as we see today... but rather ai will be part of the foundation and change the players a bit. But the way i see it today is: The profitable businesses are mainly in the niches. So you need to specialize and niche down. But it is the generalists that know how to put together and manage a mixed group of people that typically tap these niches. And find/leverage the specialists.