On the debate on Skills Based Hiring and Talent Density, let us now introduce a further concept -
Skills Parsimony. This is the idea that we ‘over task’ workers with too many responsibilities, often those which are not congruent to their core expertise or even purpose. How about reducing the things you’re asking workers to do, and focus on the core skills? New doors open up to describe worker burnout, skills taxonomy, internal mobility and the like. Thank you Andrew Kable for sharing your thoughts with me - we might need to do a Brainfood Live on this.