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Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of The Five Minute Leader.
A couple of days ago, I was having a conversation with one of the creators of TechWolf, Mick Wornoo. TechWolf, if you’re not familiar with the company, is one of many vendors and platforms out there. It’s basically a technology solution that sits as a data layer on top of your existing platforms inside the organization. You feed all of your data from these different systems into TechWolf, and it helps you analyze all the skills that you have and predict future skills going forward.
You can listen to the full podcast, but what I really wanted to share from this is that during our discussion, this analogy — this thought — popped into my mind around what this is like, why this is so difficult, and why this is also so important.
The idea of creating a skills-based organization is kind of like everybody in your company having their own search browser just for them. So imagine you have 5,000 employees that work in your company, and every single one of them has their own personalized Google — where you can go into that browser and get information specifically about that person.
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