The Platinum Workforce : How to Train and Hire for the 21st Century’s Industrial Transition

Artificial intelligence is already causing a major shift in the nature of work.Countries, colleges, or employers are not prepared to continuously train billions of knowledge workers to compete in this new economic reality.But that’s not all. More change is coming due to the polycrisis of pressing challenges such as sustainability, social inequality, and geopolitical instability.Figuring out what career paths, skills, and talents we need to nurture has never been more urgent, especially for those who aspire to leadership. In The Platinum Workforce, futurist and technologist Trond Arne Undheim reveals how to be a changemaker in the ongoing re-industrial transition.Industrial principles such as lean manufacturing, technological advancement, and production at scale meet significant sustainability challenges, increased risks, and intricate inequality concerns from the Global South as well as from workers in advanced societies who also feel left behind.Undheim has spent the last decade exami