The Platinum Workforce: How to Train and Hire for the 21st Century’s Industrial Transition

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Trond Arne Undheim

The Platinum Workforce

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How to Train and Hire for the 21st Century’s Industrial Transition

Trond Arne Undheim

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Anthem Press
25 November 2025

Working patterns & practices; Impact of science & technology on society; Advice on careers & achieving success

Artificial intelligence is already causing a major shift in the nature of work. Countries, colleges, or employers are not prepared to continuously train billions of knowledge workers to compete in this new economic reality. But that's not all. More change is coming due to the polycrisis of pressing challenges such as sustainability, social inequality, and geopolitical instability. Figuring out what career paths, skills, and talents we need to nurture has never been more urgent, especially for those who aspire to leadership.

In The Platinum Workforce, futurist and technologist Trond Arne Undheim reveals how to be a changemaker in the ongoing re-industrial transition. Industrial principles such as lean manufacturing, technological advancement, and production at scale meet significant sustainability challenges, increased risks, and intricate inequality concerns from the Global South as well as from workers in advanced societies who also feel left behind. Undheim has spent the last decade examining the technologies, risks, and trends shaping the future of work. Helping startups, shaping governance policies, teaching students, and building educational programs, he has found that there are two core skills and ten complementary skills that will define both individual and collective success in the future of work. The core skills are deft humanAI collaboration and an innate interoperability mindset, but teams together mastering the ten complementary skills

eco-awareness, maker skills, mediation skills, megascale operations, mobility, risk aptitude, R&D hacks, psycho-resilience, sociotechnical finesse, and systems thinking

is what will define future leadership.

Leading the 21st-century workplace will require unprecedented levels of humanAI collaboration. But evolving new forms of augmented intelligence will not be easy. We all have to train for it, constantly adapting to new interfaces and watching out for risks that could derail progress or create new problems. But the challenge does not stop there. Tackling the cascading effects of evolving hazards requires astute risk management.

Transdisciplinary skills such as an entrepreneurial approach, megascale execution ability, and socio-technical skills will need to be constantly honed. Leaders and workers alike need to develop an interoperability mindset. Success requires adapting to, and helping others adapt to, the fundamental shifts in the materials, methods, tools, and technologies fueling the intricate cultural machine we call society. No matter our degrees, experiences, resources, or current skill sets, to compete in this new world, we need a reset.

By: Trond Arne Undheim
Imprint: Anthem Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 575g
ISBN: 9781839994586
ISBN 10: 1839994584
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 25 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Trond Arne Undheim is a futurist, scholar, speaker, podcaster, venture partner, and entrepreneur based in the United States. He has worked at Stanford, MIT, WPP, Oracle, and the European Union. He holds a PhD on the future of work and artificial intelligence and has authored seven books.

Reviews for The Platinum Workforce: How to Train and Hire for the 21st Century’s Industrial Transition

“Dr. Undheim’s timely and creative book, Platinum Workforce, tackles one of the most critical existential questions of our time: how work will be performed, organized—or whether it will exist in familiar forms. This is a bold and necessary contribution to the future-of-work dialogue.” — Avanish Sahai, Stanford DCI Fellow, Investor, and Advisor “Trond Undheim understands that talent—not just tools—defines the future of enterprise. Platinum Workforce is a timely, tech-literate manifesto for building adaptive, AI-ready organizations without losing sight of human creativity.” — Sanjay Manandhar, CEO & Co-founder, Zifino, serial Tech Founder, Board Director, MIT alum “Undheim offers thoughtful insights on technological evolution alongside actionable strategies, providing organizations with a valuable roadmap to navigate workforce transformation in our rapidly changing world.” — Dr. David A. Bray, Distinguished Fellow & Chair of the Accelerator, Stimson Center & CEO, LeadDoAdapt Ventures, Inc. ""Undheim tackles the critical issue of preserving human agency in the age of AI, providing organizations with strategies to empower their workforce while leveraging technological advancements."" — Mark Minevich, Author, Forbes Columnist, Strategic Partner at Mayfield Venture Capital, Chairman, Going Global Ventures. “Undheim doesn’t just predict the future of work—he engineers it. The Platinum Workforce is a masterful guide for forward-thinking leaders who see digital disruption not as a threat, but as a platform for reinvention.”— Truls Berg, Founder, Open Innovation Lab of Norway.