As featured on Forbes.com by Roberto Bonzio
As a speaker at the recent i7 Summit in Chantilly, Paris, Talent Age CEO Kyung H. Yoon focused on how the world of technology and globalization is impacting business and how it is more important than ever to recruit innovative talents who can cope with a rapidly changing environment.
“The most effective leaders in this kind of world where everything is changing, and nothing can be taken as granted, are people who can handle rapid change and big shifts,” Yoon said. This requires intelligence, creativity, the ability to figure things out, team creation and management, and the capability to face new challenges. Yoon calls these people “T Shaped People” because they have very broad and disparate backgrounds.
As companies throughout the corporate landscape scramble to reinvent themselves to avoid becoming obsolete, the demand for multicultural, multitasking talent is increasing. This is true not just in top multinational corporations, Yoon said, but for mid-cap and startup companies across a broad spectrum of industries, nonprofit entities, educational institutions, foundations, associations and governmental entities.
Yoon urges the educational system to support this very dynamic environment by teaching people to think creatively so they can tackle problems never seen before and to train multilingual and multicultural people. In addition, lifelong learning must become a habit, Yoon said. Today’s businesses need managers who are able to change, and learning and innovating should be part of a whole career.
