Showing 1–12 of 21 articles tagged Future Of Work

Product management is escaping tech. HVAC companies, PE portfolios, regional banks, and schools are about to hire their first PM. The discipline is leaving.

Alignment mechanics were scaffolding for moving information through slow orgs. Agents move it instantly. What's left is the conviction the scaffolding hid.

In stable markets, plan your next job. In exponential markets, plan the one after. Why title cuts today are the highest-return career move of the decade.
Teams shipping 10x more product aren't hiring more designers. Design still matters; most orgs just hire for the wrong part of it.

The hiring signal has inverted. Prestige credentials from the big-tech era correlate weakly with AI fluency. Screen for recency, not brand.

Success in the old operating model is a reinvention tax. The senior leaders who mastered roadmap theatre and stakeholder alignment struggle most to adapt.

The 2024–2026 layoff cycle isn't a ZERP correction. It's a talent swap at a 3.75:1 ratio, with an entirely different skill filter. Most discourse misses it.

Keith Rabois' barrels vs. ammunition framework reframes what AI changes about teams. More ammunition without more barrels solves the wrong problem.

90%+ enterprise AI tool access, most people stuck in chat. The rollout bottleneck isn't the model. It's the harness. Here's the product fix.

AI coding tools tripled engineering output overnight. PM and design headcount stayed flat. The ratio broke, and most orgs haven't noticed yet.

AI productivity does not hand ambitious builders spare time. It increases the number of bets, side projects, and decisions they can pursue each week.

Zapier's V2 AI Fluency Rubric reveals a calibration problem. Most companies' target for AI adoption maps to Zapier's baseline, one step above their minimum.