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You Cannot Recruit Your Way Out of a Skills Crisis
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You Cannot Recruit Your Way Out of a Skills Crisis

Steve Cadigan on why the future of work belongs to leaders who build trust, develop people faster, and create organizations where learning is part of the job.

Steve Cadigan, former Chief HR Officer at LinkedIn and author of Workquake, joins me to talk about what leaders are getting wrong about talent, development, and the future of work.

We discuss why one-size-fits-all talent strategies are failing, why people are increasingly loyal to learning and growth rather than companies, and why organizations will not be able to recruit their way out of the accelerating need for new skills.

Steve also shares lessons from LinkedIn’s rapid growth, his own transition after leaving the company, and why careers are built on trust more than hard work.

This conversation is about development, but not in the classroom sense. It is about how leaders create the conditions for people to keep growing while the world around them changes.

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