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July 30, 2025 • 35 mins

Part 2 of 2: 🎙️ Why the "Job" is Dead, and What’s Coming Next | Gary Bolles 


What if the very concept of a “job” is the most significant barrier to your purpose, potential, and prosperity?


🧠 Episode Summary:

In this explosive Part 2 of The Dov Baron Show, futurist and work re-architect Gary Bolles dismantles the outdated job-centric mindset that’s been hardwired into our schools, companies, and even our identities.

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If you’re still trying to “fix” work without rethinking its entire foundation, this is the confrontation you didn’t know you needed.

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Gary reveals why our inherited scripts about jobs, education, and talent development are failing fast—and how a new Menu of Work model offers not just productivity, but personal sovereignty.

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Dov and Gary go deep into the emotional cost of systems designed to extract rather than empower. Together, they offer a bold, human-centered alternative to navigate the coming disruption—one where work isn’t something you fit into, but something you design.


🚨 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

  • Why the old concept of a “job” is overdue for extinction

  • How to build a “menu of meaningful work” that evolves with you

  • The lie of linear careers—and why younger generations reject them

  • What companies get wrong about internal talent mobility

  • How to lead in an era where skills change faster than org charts

  • The real cost of outdated education models on global opportunity

  • Why we must unlearn the old narratives before we design what’s next

  • How work becomes a platform for dignity, equity, and creativity

  • The core shift from extractive systems to regenerative leadership

  • Why your organization must become a “learning lab” or risk irrelevance

 


💣 Truth Bomb:

“If your systems require people to unlearn who they are, you don’t have a work problem, you have a humanity problem.” ~Dov Baron


🧭 About Gary Bolles:

Chair for the Future of Work at Singularity University, author of The Next Rules of Work, and global voice on work reinvention. Gary has helped millions of learners on LinkedIn and advises leading organizations on redesigning work for a fast, fluid, and purpose-driven future.

🌐 https://garybolles.com
📕 The Next Rules of Work 

 


🔥 Dov Baron’s Take:

“This episode isn’t a conversation—it’s a wake-up call. Most leaders are still designing work as if it were the Industrial Age. Gary hands you the blueprint to stop being a prisoner of the past and start being an architect of the future.”

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🗣️ Listener Challenge:

What part of the “job” narrative do YOU need to unlearn?
Drop your truth in the comments—no more legacy lies.

🎧 Subscribe now and never let the past lead you again.

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Hashtags:

#GaryBolles #FutureOfWork #NextRulesOfWork #SkillSta

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