Book description
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they…
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I found this book compelling because it confronts questions many leaders avoid: what happens when expertise itself becomes scalable through technology?
The book stayed with me because it challenges deeply held assumptions about authority, credentials, and value. It helped me see leadership as the responsibility to rethink how knowledge is created, shared, and governed, especially when technology lowers barriers but raises new ethical and organizational challenges.
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