Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan Skilled-Trades Crisis, Musk's Trillion-Dollar Targets, 2026 Workplace Trends, and the Return of College Degrees
Nov 13, 2025
The podcast explores a looming skilled-trades crisis, highlighting thousands of vacant high-paying technical jobs. It delves into Elon Musk's eye-popping trillion-dollar compensation package, which sets ambitious performance targets for Tesla. Listeners learn about Glassdoor's anticipated workplace trends for 2026, emphasizing the importance of transparency and human-centric leadership. Finally, a debate arises around the resurgence of college-degree requirements, suggesting a shift away from skills-based hiring towards traditional qualifications.
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Skilled Trades Shortage Is A Strategic Risk
- The U.S. faces a growing skilled-trades shortage as high-paying technical roles go unfilled across industries.
- Jacob Morgan warns organizations must invest in training, apprenticeships, and career design to close the gap.
Create Internal Technical Academies
- Build internal training academies and expand apprenticeship models to develop technical talent internally.
- Redesign career progression for technical roles to retain premium blue-collar employees.
Automation Follows Talent Shortages
- Automation may accelerate because companies cannot hire enough humans for critical roles, not just to cut headcount.
- The physical trades remain central to how businesses and societies function alongside digital work.
