THE ONE THING

1. What’s Changing in 2025: 9 Trends on How We’ll Work

The Harvard Business Review published an article recently entitled “9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2025 and Beyond”

Every leader should be aware of what those trends are, and how to prepare their teams and organizations for the upcoming year.

Here’s a summary of the 9 trends (categorized into buckets identified by Gartner as the three main challenges for leaders in 2025)

Challenge 1: New Demands for a Future-Ready Workforce

1. As retirements surge and tech disruption continues, organizations will suffer from a loss of expertise.

2. Organizations will restructure to take advantage of AI and other technological innovations.

3. Companies will adopt “nudgetech” to bridge widening collaboration gaps (nudgetech is a set of AI-powered tools that enable personalization at scale)

Challenge 2: The Evolving Role of Managers

4. Seeking fairness, employees will embrace bots over bosses.

5. Organizations will wrestle with how to retain high performers in the age of AI.

6. Organizations will shift focus to inclusion and belonging — with unexpected benefits.

Challenge 3: Emerging Talent Risks to the Organization

7. “AI-first” organizations will destroy productivity in their search for it.

8. Loneliness becomes a business risk, not just a well-being challenge.

9. Employee activism drives companies to adopt responsible AI norms.

An interesting and unsurprising observation: the term “AI” appears in more than half of those trends.

INSIGHTFUL THOUGHTS

2. When to Fix Things: Parable of a Sinking Ship

Here’s a short story referred to as the “Parable of a Sinking Ship” about when to fix problems at work (shared by Alex Hormozi)

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4. On Making Tough Leadership Decisions

THE 80/20

5. An 80/20 Tip You Can Apply Today

Here’s a low-effort, high-impact tip you can use with your team today:

• What: Make your emails scannable

• Why: If you write emails that are seven paragraphs long without breaking up your text into manageable chunks, your email read rate will go way down.

• Examples: Instead of endless text, make your words stand out by using subheadings, adding white space, and bolding any important phrases. And use bullet points for all your actions and questions.