Work skills for the future: Freestyling

Freestylers can adapt to novel situations, apply innovative ideas and techniques, and work with others to accomplish some aim.

I was asked to develop a briefing on the future of work by an investment banking firm, and one of the questions that came up was ‘what are the most critical or essential work skills for the future’? I’ve decided to dedicate a series to the question, and over the next few months I will enumerate 10 or so skills.

Tyler Cohen, in Average Is Over, used the m…