As founder of the World Economic Forum, the not-for-profit organisation “committed to improving the state of the world”, we like to think that Klaus Schwab, even without his academic credentials, knows a thing or two about economics and the state of the global commercial landscape. 

The Fourth Industrial Revolution provides a detailed picture into the impact that exponential technological advance is likely to have on us societally, and not least on the relationship we have with our workplaces. In spite of the risks posed to our employability generically, Schwab argues that “talentism” is “one of the most important, emerging drivers of competitiveness”, holding that people will always lie at the heart of commercial success.