Humans Are (Still) Underrated

They used to be called “soft skills.” Now they’re called “durable skills” because the skills of human interaction are eternal. As the head-spinning advances of AI transform work, leaders and workers are wondering how people fit in – and whether they’ll fit in at all in five years. Geoff Colvin foresaw this moment since before his groundbreaking book Humans are Underrated was released in 2015. He’s long made the case, correctly, that innately human qualities – empathy, collaboration, creativity, communication, storytelling, and creating relationships – would be increasingly prized skills in this environment. In this talk, Geoff delivers insights and hard data examples from the biggest private equity firms and preeminent executive search firms showing how business leaders are prioritizing these skills to produce outsized financial results. In an AI world, the most-valued skills and traits for people are changing fast. You can’t afford to be left behind.