10/23/2025

How to Be a Great Manager in a High-tech World

Rapid technology changes require deeply human leadership

You've likely seen the stories. Organizations are no longer hiring young professionals because they lack skills and can be replaced by AI (Burleigh, 2025). The robots are coming for everybody’s jobs (Mesa, 2025). The skills needed to be successful at work have rapidly changed and will continue to do so (LinkedIn, 2025). It's harder than ever to get a job due to how AI has changed the application process through Application Tracking Systems (ATS), AI-generated resumes and "easy apply" bots. And more.

As with all new things, we simply do not have enough data yet on how AI is upending or already has upended our work and our lives. In fact, a piece published just this week notes that while there is a lot of fear about the perceived impacts of AI on the workplace, research by Yale University and Brookings “found little evidence that artificial intelligence has fundamentally transformed the workforce or reshaped the economy in the ways people assumed — at least not yet. In fact, the technology's impact thus far appears to be fairly limited, suggesting that its long-promised disruption may still be on the horizon (Urwin, 2025)." And even the results of that study are limited due to lack of definitive data.

What we do know is this: Work will continue to change; AI is here to stay and smart employees constantly look to evolve their skills to stay relevant. But what does this mean for those in management? How does one effectively manage people and teams in this age of AI?

Please select this link to read the complete article from Psychology Today.