The talent stack collapse can't come soon enough, if you ask me. I always hated the “cog in the machine” concept of work. I personally like to work with people who can make it happen, whatever “it” may be.
I am known—and often hated—for saying that designers should be the owners of their projects. And by that I mean that they should discover, educate, design, manage, and deliver them—in some form or another.
The time has finally come to see how really multidisciplinary you are.