Actionable Insights for What’s Ahead: The New Work In Progress Report

My new report shares clarity and guidance when the world order is reorganizing, the world of business is reverberating, and the world of work is responding—rapidly, flexibly, digitally, onsite, online, and on the road.

What do you NEED to READ? About what, whom, and why?

To scale fast in the modern work era, you need to:

• align values across your workforce and ecosystem,
• strengthen cultural connections and trusting relationships,
• reconfirm your purpose, principles, and practices.

So I'm excited to share my updated Work In Progress Report, a weekly ‘must read’ for human-centric workforce innovation in the age of AI.

Every week, I share concise concepts and assessments to help ambitious growth-focused executives and rising leaders verify:

• What do you need to focus on, check on, or reconfigure?
• Who needs upskilling? What needs updating or upgrading?
• How ready are employees for AI-generated opportunities?
• What’s stable? Who's not?
• What’s good to go? Who's good for now?

I draw on my strategic development background—building and living financial models—turning theory into practice.

The Work In Progress Report covers critical areas where digitally maturing operations and humans’ evolving needs are inextricably interwoven—the core of why, how, what, where, and when to transition or transform to grow:

Digital DNA  

Discussing topics such as how to ensure your workforce upskills and embraces AI integration so that your business can scale successfully, such as engaging employees to figure out how/where to use AI to take over specific tasks

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Leadership in 4D

Addressing how you enhance workforce performance, despite unpredictable conditions, with human-centric approaches including recognizing the importance of culture, belonging, relationships, and interpersonal skills.

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Generational EQ

Bringing employees of all ages together—especially integrating Gen Zers—with tips based on trust, empathy, and respect to foster understanding of others’ backgrounds and perspectives to bridge gaps and improve outcomes.

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Distributed Works

Exploring modern work mindsets and methods to learn and adapt for more decentralized operations—tackling remote/hybrid optimization and asynchronous protocols—with a flexible approach to facilitate effective adoption.

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Scaling Skills-first

Responding to tech-driven growth pathways as you shift from fixed legacy structures and routines—deconstructed by AI—to transition from defining work by ‘jobs’ to focus on workforce skills that match the growing volume of projects.

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News & Muse

Highlighting an urgent update or promoting out-of-the-box thinking by sharing one emerging or lesser-known venture challenging you to consider new ways to grow your business or enable your workforce.

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I will cover a few sections each time. I’ll elevate what’s important to pay attention to. I’ll bring you video tips, including highlights from my podcast “​Transforming Work with Sophie Wade​.”

Watch video of an acclaimed Hollywood movie and award-winning CGI effects producer, Steven Puri, sharing how the Hollywood production model informs how he focuses on productivity and performance at his new tech start up, the Sukha Company.

Check out video insights about the potential and possibilities of working anywhere from Harvard Business School Professor Prithwiraj Choudhury, Scholar of Geography of Work, Talent and Innovation the day after he launches his super NEW book “The World is Your Office.”

Plus, intel and ideas to improve how well your workforce gels—connecting better across generations to reduce misunderstandings that impede growth and ensure smooth and scalable operations.

I look forward to engaging with you, receiving your inputs and issues, and interacting.

See you next week!

Sophie