These charts line up with what I am seeing inside the Collaborate With Mark community. More people stepping into entrepreneurship. Companies running leaner. YouTube drawing whole generations away from legacy media. AI reshaping buying behavior and leadership habits.
The common thread is agency. People are no longer waiting for old systems to open the door. They are building their own opportunities, their own audiences, and their own leverage. My readers and listeners feel this shift every day and the momentum around it keeps growing.
If your work touches leadership or collaboration, this is the landscape you are actually operating in. Study it. Build for it. And if you want a guide for navigating this new environment, my upcoming book Collaborate Better is written for exactly this moment.