Skills that have nothing to do with money but are worth dedicating an immense amount of practice to:
- Charisma
- Metacognition
- Critical thinking
- Sitting with discomfort
- Articulating what you believe and why
- Changing your beliefs when presented with new information
Almost nobody actually practices these and it shows.
Skills that leaders identify as key to long-term organizational performance—judgment, problem understanding, creative thinking, and more—are the ones that they consider most at risk due to AI.
When this skill attrition occurs across thousands of people simultaneously, the business's collective intelligence quietly degrades. This is “distributed de-skilling”—a collective erosion of human skills that undermines organizational intelligence and resilience over time.
Here are six strategies to mitigate de-skilling risk:
Skills in Gemini Enterprise let you formalize a specific workflow—like applying brand guidelines or formatting a report—and save it as a reusable action for your whole team.
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