The Skills-Powered Organization

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The Skills-Powered Organization (2022) argues that organisations should be built around skills rather than fixed jobs. Ravin Jesuthasan and Tanuj Kapilashrami explain how breaking work into tasks and matching them with people’s skills can make companies more agile, improve careers, and help workers adapt as automation changes the workplace. The book offers a practical guide for leaders and human resources teams.

• Organisations work better when they are built around skills instead of fixed job titles.
• Breaking work into tasks makes it possible to match each task with the people best suited to it.
• A skills-first approach can make companies more agile when the workplace changes.
• Matching people's skills to tasks can improve careers and help workers adapt as automation changes work.
• The book works as a practical guide for leaders and human resources teams who want to make the shift.

Ravin Jesuthasan and Tanuj Kapilashrami are experts on the future of work and talent. Jesuthasan is a management consultant and author who has advised many global companies on work and automation. Kapilashrami is a senior human resources and strategy executive at the international bank Standard Chartered.