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Leadership after the end of the specialist era.
For 250 years we built careers like ladders — vertical, one identity deep. AI just took the ladder away. It won't take your job. It takes your tasks — and if your job is a pile of tasks, it's gone. What remains is horizontal.
Manuscript complete · ~42,000 words
Since the first fire, humanity ran exactly one project: a tool that does our work for us. The project just shipped.
AI is the tool we've been building since the first fire. It doesn't take your job. It takes your tasks — and a job that's just a pile of tasks is already gone.
Ownership — putting your name on an outcome, not a task. Seeing across domains, now that depth costs twenty dollars a month. And the creativity that only shows up when you disconnect.
Leading humans and leading AI agents look like the same job. They aren't. The quiet experts who never wanted to manage anyone are about to run the biggest teams of their lives.
The practice — as a person, as a leader, as an organization — between now and 2030. Every chapter ends with something you can actually do.
A table of contents is just a ladder. This book argues the interesting things happen across — so here is the same book, horizontally. Pick the route that matches your Monday.
On stage — from conference rooms in Budapest to the World Summit keynote in Shanghai.
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