The 21st-Century Workplace - Forces and Essential Skills

This is from an advertisement I recently read by the University of Phoenix that identified six future disruptive forces and ten essential skills.

The Disruptive Forces

1. Extreme Longevity - - increasing global lifespans change the nature of careers and learning.
2. Rise of Smart Machines and Systems - - workplace robotics nudge human workers out of rote, repetitive tasks. (Note #1 and #2 produce the paradox of the 21st century - - the desire to work longer, but potentially fewer opportunities.)
3. Computational World - - massive increases in sensors and processing power makes the world a programmable system.
4. New Media Ecology - - new communication tools require new media literacies beyond text.
5. Superstructured Organizations - - social technologies drive new forms of production and value creation.
6. Globally Connected World - - Increased global interconnectivity puts diversity and adaptability at the center of organizational operations.

The Ten Essential Skills

1. Sense-Making (good way to say this!!)
2. Transdisciplinary
3. Social Intelligence
4. Novel and Adaptive Thinking
5. Computational Thinking
6. New Media Literacy
7. Design Mindset
8. Cognitive Load Management (another good one!!)
9. Cross Cultural Competency
10. Virtual Collaboration