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Before You Flatten the Org Chart, Make Sure You Can Measure What AI Delivers
I’m a fan of radical thinking. It forces you to test assumptions you didn’t know you were making. You don’t always have to agree with it. Agreement was never the point.
The point is whether it makes you think. Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha’s essay, From Hierarchy to Intelligence, did that to me. It lays out how Block is rebuilding itself as a company organized as intelligence rather than hierarchy, and it came a month after Block cut its workforce by about 40%. Most of what gets written about AI and organizations stops at copilots, a smarter assistant bolted onto the same old structure. They…
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