Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan This Is Not the Future of Work We Were Promised
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Dec 17, 2025 Explore the rapid rise of AI and how it's outpacing HR readiness, creating significant workplace challenges. Discover Ford’s struggles with its electric vehicle strategy amidst regulatory pressures. Learn about the tightening white-collar job market and the demand for skilled trades amid rising job anxiety. Companies increasingly favor skills over degrees, forcing higher education to adapt or risk becoming obsolete. Plus, insights on the UK's new Employment Rights Bill aiming to enhance worker protections and reduce job precarity.
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AI Succeeds Only If People Systems Catch Up
- AI adoption is outpacing people systems and managerial readiness, creating ambiguity not workload.
- Jacob Morgan warns that AI will fail because people systems don't adapt, not because the technology doesn't work.
Ford's EV Pullback And Labor Strain
- Ford wrote off roughly $19.5 billion after EV demand and infrastructure mismatches forced a strategy pullback.
- Jacob Morgan describes hiring struggles like 5,000 mechanics paid ~$120,000 who still can't be found, illustrating hidden labor strain.
Redesign Work From First Principles
- Redesign work from first principles rather than retrofitting old systems to new technologies.
- Morgan advises leaders to avoid confusing compliance with transformation to prevent hidden workforce volatility.