AI is going to kill your job blah blah blah. Your job is safe if you focus on the right skills.

• Explain how your CEO’s 3 AM revelation perfectly aligns with the strategic roadmap you spent six months crafting and just got approved last week
• Grasp why Jeff from Finance needs to be CC’d on emails that have nothing to do with Finance, because he once wasn’t and Things Happened
• Mastering the subtle linguistics of project postponement, where ‘let’s put a pin in this’ means ‘good idea, wrong quarter,’ ‘let’s table this’ means ‘never speak of this again,’ and ‘let’s circle back’ means ‘I hope you forget about this by next week’
• Converting your carefully constructed 20-slide presentation into a ‘brief one-pager’ while preserving all the content because ‘executives don’t read slides’
• Decoding whether ‘let’s discuss offline’ is corporate for ‘this conversation needs witness protection’ or simply ‘please stop talking, we can all see the VP checking their phone’
• Coming up with creative new ways to say ‘we missed our targets’ without ever using the word ‘missed’ or any synonyms
• Translating ‘urgent request’ timestamps into actual deadlines based on the sender’s historical definition of urgent

You have people skills. That’s job security you can take to your next unnecessary meeting.