The authors, pragmatists both, don't foresee professionals stepping in to reclaim these tasks anytime soon.
For him, the lesson of the Trevor Cook case is, in part, "the importance of business professionals stepping up and bringing us information — even if there is no financial incentive and sometimes may be financial risk to them".
Professionals must step forward and deliver on the industry's promise that it is trustworthy, forward-thinking and serves society.
It is here that private-sector professionals can step in, contribute their expertise and help draw the connection between the classroom and job market – particularly by reshaping skills to reflect new technology.
To analyse and treat disease, doctors and other professionals must step back from the patient's subjective world and place them on the conveyor belt of diagnosis, assessment and treatment, which moves at its own pace and which creates brief encounters between professionals and patients.
Toggling between the working class and the chattering class has taught me a lot about both: what we expect of ourselves, how others perceive us, ideas about our next professional step and how we'll make it.
To illustrate, I will tell you two (mostly) real-life stories of Ph.D. scientists who made smooth transitions from graduate school to their next professional step.
And by that, I don't mean leopard print crop-tops and Geri Halliwell rasping about empowerment, I mean the literal power of a professional step team, who Owens called on to model his latest collection.
Is it worth the money, or in some cases, even morally right to ask a professional to step in?
