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Last month I was invited to speak to a group of young engineers. Before I went up, someone flashed this slide on the screen, the one with all the “future skills” we need. Creative thinking, analytical thinking, AI literacy, systems thinking, ethics, collaboration. Everyone nodded as if these were superpowers only AI can give them. One boy whispered to his friend, “Now Gemini 3.0 and ChatGPT 5.1 can do all this. What’s left for us?” I looked at him and smiled. “Let me tell you something.” In 2024, there was a project manager I coached. Brilliant guy, technically perfect. He used every tool, AI, data, dashboards, automation, yet his team was falling apart. Deadlines slipped, people avoided him, tension filled the room. One day he said to me, “Andy, I don’t understand. I have all the skills. Why is nothing working?” I asked him one question: “When was the last time you showed someone you cared?” He went quiet. The next week, he tried something simple. He asked a stressed teammate, “Are yo...