The Organization Of The Future Is Nearly Here -- What Does It Look Like?

Recently I attended a talk by Bhushan Sethi. You almost can't miss him (here, here, here, here, etc.) and last week it was my turn.

Here is a thought question he tossed out. What will the future organization look like?

Our normative model is the Pyramid of Khafre in Giza, pictured above. Classic -- lots of worker bees at the bottom, fewer in the middle, very few/one at the top.

What about this next one?

Here, most of us get to a point in the hierarchy and then...that's it. But some people -- the AI automation people? -- keep going and going.

Or this:

This is a "normal"-looking hierarchy but employees start in the middle, not at the bottom.

You may not care per se but think of it this way. If AI takes mid-career cybersecurity jobs away, how will you adjust once that happens? Or, if entry-level jobs go away, how will entry-level -- formerly mid-level -- cyber-defenders learn their craft? What about those pesky risk vectors, a.k.a. nontechnical employees?

It's a lot to think about in addition to your day job but I would look at this this way. Much like the only thing LLMs guarantee you is that they could be wrong, the only thing we can truly expect about the organization -- and career -- of the future is -- it will be different from what we're used to.

Prepare now.

We'll have more from Bhushan later. 

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