Beyond Automation, Beyond Borders: Cultivating Your Talent in a New Global Reality

Author(s): Fred Chagnon

While the discourse around artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, often emphasizes workforce displacement, a strategy fixated on replacing human workers with AI is shortsighted. True value creation in the AI era demands a strategic investment in people – employees and partners – to augment, manage, and innovate with these technologies. This imperative is critically amplified by emerging de-globalization trends that are reshaping global talent pipelines and increasing the need for organizational self-sufficiency. Sustainable success, innovation, and resilience will therefore hinge on an organization’s commitment to cultivating in-house talent, focusing on skills for AI, cybersecurity, and adaptive leadership to effectively navigate a future defined by human–AI cocreation.