The Fourth Industrial Revolution will reinvent work and the workplace. Even as “machines” and devices do more and more, those tasks that are non-automated will require people to be more connected and work more collaboratively than ever.

The successful team will be made up of people who:

• Learn, share and connect ideas.
• Build good relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, inside and outside their organizations.
• Are able to work productively and agilely across multiple boundaries whether they be functional, industry, governmental and/or national.
• Fundamentally understand that the impact of technology on society is not just about consumers and producers but that it is also about driving progress and not just profits.

Given this, leadership in The Fourth Industrial Revolution will have to be evolve. Leaders will be required to:

• Be co-creators rather than innovators.
• Be empathetic collaborators rather than forceful commanders.
• Be humane and emotionally intelligent.

The following article articulates some of the trials and successes that NASA has had in being challenged “to be more agile, think differently, buy smarter and develop more efficiently”:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-change-agents-bringing-tradition-bound-nasa-into-the-future/2018/08/24/626e6f02-a646-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7ebecabf3e56