50: Joseph Fuller – Skill-based Hiring, Harvard Business School and the Future of Learning

Our guest in this episode of #digikompetenzpodcast is Professor
Dr. Joseph Fuller. Joseph Fuller is Professor for Management
Practice and Co-Director of Managing the Future of Work Project
at Harvard Business School.


In this truly inspiring and future-oriented conversation, Joseph
Fuller gives us deep insights into his recently completed
research on the future of work, C-level executives, and
skill-based hiring and what this means for the future of learning
and the management of companies all over the world. The pace of
technology and change is so rapid that the formal education
system is unlikely be able to keep up with all its nuances.
Consequently, future companies will be responsible for providing
specific training and retraining. And it requires HR to earn
their seat at the strategic table by implementing and steering
this ongoing strategic process.


From the increasing importance of social skills in hiring and the
anticipation of company strategy-based reskilling needs in up to
3 years, via the linking of personnel files to performance
management systems data via artificial intelligence to learning
and development for associates in anticipation of them leaving to
get better paid positions and leading universities such as
Harvard providing world-class courses such as CS50: introduction
to computer science to be taught remotely at other top
universities, such as Yale.  One thing is for sure:
investing in people based on personnel file and performance is
better than fighting for talent on the market.


If you would like to know why, in addition to being a renowned
researcher on management practice, the future of work and
skill-based hiring, Joseph Fuller is also a very experienced
grocery shopper, why Harvard is his “family business”, why he has
an excellent relationship with the mayor of the town he lives in
and why finding out his secrets could possibly be a very
dangerous venture – then listen in!