Redefining leadership: Embracing human judgment amid AI disruption
The claim that 100 million white-collar jobs may become obsolete due to AI is an alarm bell, not just for employment, but for how we perceive work itself. This article argues that the commoditization of analytical skills by AI is shifting value to technology-driven implementation. But here's the crux: AI exposes the hollowing of human judgment, not just job roles. It's a wake-up call for leaders to redefine value beyond process and output. Are we ready to reclaim the irreplaceably human aspects of work, like discernment and responsibility, that AI can't replicate?
The claim that 100 million white-collar jobs may become obsolete due to AI is an alarm bell, not just for employment, but for how we perceive work itself. This article argues that the commoditization of analytical skills by AI is shifting value to technology-driven implementation. But here’s the crux: AI exposes the hollowing of human judgment, not just job roles. It’s a wake-up call for leaders to redefine value beyond process and output. Are we ready to reclaim the irreplaceably human aspects of work, like discernment and responsibility, that AI can’t replicate?
Why the McKinsey layoffs are a warning signal for consulting in the AI age
The agent-shaped org chart
Every real org has the same topology: principal, role-holder, specialists. Staff AI maps onto it, node for node, and the cost collapse shows up in the deliverables that were always just human-handoff overhead.
AI as staff, not software
Two frames for what AI is doing to work. The tool frame makes tools smarter. The staff frame makes roles unnecessary. Those aren't the same product, the same company, or the same industry.
Knowledge work was never work
Knowledge work was always coordination between humans who couldn't share state directly. The artifacts were never the work. They were the overhead — and AI just made the overhead optional.
The work of being available now
A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.
The practice of work in progress
Practical essays on how work actually gets done.
The file I almost made twice
A small operational footgun that runs everywhere — building a parallel system when the one you have is fine.
The worker isn't lying. The worker is reporting what it thought it did, which is always one step removed from what the world actually shows. The fix isn't more self-honesty. The fix is a different pair of eyes.
Shopping is the last mile
Every meal planning app treats cooking as the hard problem and shopping as a logistics detail. They have it backwards. Cooking is mostly solved. Shopping is the last mile.
Bookmark: AI is going to eliminate way more jobs than anyone realizes
AI is set to disrupt millions of jobs, demanding urgent workforce reskilling while creating new opportunities in the evolving job market.
AI didn’t deskill us, we were already deskilled
This article challenges the narrative that AI is deskilling workers, instead highlighting how many jobs were already mechanical. It offers a thought-provoking perspective on how AI could be an opportunity to reclaim and enhance human skills.
Influence in the AI era: Why human skills still matter
Discover why empathy and leadership are essential in the AI era, enhancing jobs and ensuring a human-centered future in a tech-driven world.