Dear LinkedIn: Stop Sending Us Solitaire, Start Teaching Skills That Matter

Dear LinkedIn,

While office employees are losing jobs to AI and economic reorganization, nudging them to do Sudoku or Solitaire during business hours is a striking flashback to The Office.

How about you open up tracks and weekly email drips on:

➡️ Understanding P&Ls (organizational goals/scorecards/KPIs)

➡️ Critical thinking (in the era of deep fakes and paid trolls)

➡️ Problem framing (for product mapping, prompting, interacting with people and agents)

➡️ Emotional intelligence (because radical candor is wishful thinking)

➡️ AI literacy (which collectively is at 5 out of 100)

➡️ Continuous learning and upskilling mental models

➡️ Teamwork and collaboration (and no, digital games on a professional network don’t count)

I see these spam pitches in group emails, my inbox, and even the “My Network” tab 🤦‍♂️.

Sincerely,
a technology founder who has to pick between hiring humans and deploying agents for organizations on a daily basis

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Mario Peshev is a 5x CEO and operator, founder of DevriX and Growth Shuttle, global value creation advisor, angel investor, and author of “MBA Disrupted.”

His original background in engineering rode the wave of IT entrepreneurship in the last 25 years, from product and service entrepreneurship through acquiring and selling businesses, to investing in global startups like beehiiv, doola, the Stacked Marketer, Alcatraz, SeedBlink.

Peshev spent over 10,000 hours in consulting and training contracts for mid-market and enterprise organizations like VMware, SAP, Software AG, CERN, Saudi Aramco since 2006. His books and guides are referenced in over 50 universities in North America, Europe, and Asia.


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