---
id: "question-future-skills"
type: "open-question"
source_timestamps: ["§ Beyond the Organization: A Societal Shift", "¶26"]
tags: ["future-of-work", "strategic-uncertainty"]
related: ["quote-predict-future", "entity-john-maynard-keynes"]
resolutionPath: "Longitudinal tracking of industry skill demands and iterative, agile organizational design that adapts as AI capabilities evolve."
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-46-perils-replace-entry-level"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/09/the-perils-of-using-ai-to-replace-entry-level-jobs"
sourceTitle: "The Perils of Using AI to Replace Entry-Level Jobs"
---
# What Specific Roles and Skills Will Define Future Success?

**Open question:** The authors acknowledge that organizations operate without certainty about what roles, skills, or even business models will define success in five or ten years. Because no one has a 'crystal ball,' the exact requirements of tomorrow's world remain unknown — forcing companies to focus on transcendent habits like effort, self-discipline, and systems thinking rather than specific, potentially obsolete content.

**Resolution path:** Longitudinal tracking of industry skill demands plus iterative, agile organizational design that adapts as AI capabilities evolve. The authors' stance toward this uncertainty is captured in [[quote-predict-future]]; [[entity-john-maynard-keynes]]'s failed 15-hours-by-2030 forecast is the cautionary precedent for over-confident prediction.