Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

Why doing your job is no longer enough? #DistributionIndustry

Name: Why doing your job is no longer enough? #DistributionIndustry
Uploaded: 2025-09-02T18:31:41+00:00
Duration: 49 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: Tom Burton argues that the labor market is shifting: routine 'do-your-job' roles will decline while demand will grow for workers who understand business…

2 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Tom Burton argues that the labor market is shifting: routine 'do-your-job' roles will decline while demand will grow for workers who understand business operations and possess deeper, cross-functional expertise. He warns that current education (including college) does not sufficiently prepare people for these expert roles and predicts rising demand for such skills.

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I think that the demand for jobs of people that can wear that role of that expert and have expertise. But what does it mean to be an expert? You got to understand more about what the business does. You have to understand how the business operates. You have to understand a lot of the nuances about a business that a lot of maybe lower people don't know. They just do their job, quote, unquote, every day. Right. I think there's going to be few and fewer jobs like that, and there's going to be more and more roles that have a responsibility of understanding the business and the expertise that is required to run that business, which is going to require I think the demand for that is going to grow significantly. Right. For those types of people. But we don't we're not training our even in college, we're not training for that role.