Tagged: workforce
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The Decline of the Org Chart
For most of the last century, the challenge of organizing large groups of people around shared work produced a consistent answer: the hierarchy. Not because anyone designed it to be optimal, but because it solved five distinct coordination problems at once, and nothing simpler could do the same. Those problems are now separable. The structure built to solve them all at once is beginning to come apart, unevenly and in ways most commentary misses.
The Return of the Builder
For decades, the software field grew by scaling the work of converting specifications into code. AI has now moved into that role. What remains, and what the field is reorganizing around, is the capacity that was always harder to scale: knowing what to build and why.