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Nowadays more and more people are embracing not only one career, they have at least two careers. The rise of so called "Slash Youth",  which means that people especially the young generation have "multi-hyphenates" or "blended careers". As Damon Brown stated in his published article " Why you should have more than one career at the same time " on Inc.com that "Focusing on one subject may give you accolades, but true success comes from being multidisciplinary." I agree with that, being multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary will bring great benefits to us. We can absorb diverse knowledge and gain insights about the fields that we have never touched before, furthermore, we can be creative by combining the knowledge that we have acquired to innovate something.  Embracing multi-hyphenates not only adds value (whatever it is material or spiritual ) to our life, but also helps us to rethink our work, to discover our intrinsic motivati...

Now we are in the 4th industrial revolution, as the emerging of new technology like Artificial Intelligence, most of the jobs have been replaced by robots. So what we are are going to do in the future, what can not be replaced for us humans? Well, it's about the very nature of work itself , leadership. Leadership is very important. It's irreplaceable. At "Leadership in the Future of Work Conference 2018" event held in NTU on Mar 28th, four leaders from different companies gave their speeches and inspired the students a lot. Ms Anna, Expert and Market Leader of McKinsey Org Solutions, said that it's coach rather than command that will matter within an organization, especially in management. She also presented us some videos about LipNet, image recognition, etc. Amazing progress in AI and automation, the impact on work, it's about jobs that have potential to be automated. And she talked about the technical feasibility and pace of breakthrough, demands for ...