What's really happening inside the management layer your company just removed — and why it matters more than anyone is admitting?
The common story is that flatter is faster — but the reality is more complicated: companies are cutting load-bearing structure without understanding what they're actually removing.
In this video, I share the inside scoop on how to unbundle management in the age of AI:
• Why management breaks into three jobs AI handles very differently
• How Kimi, Block, and Meta are running three distinct real-world experiments
• What gets lost when you compress instead of decompose the management role
• Where human judgment stays irreplaceable even as LLMs scale
Operators and leaders who take the time to decompose what managers actually do — before automating or eliminating — will build more durable, higher-performing teams than those who simply cut and compress.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction: The Management Removal Wave
01:30 What Do Managers Actually Do?
03:00 Bundle One: Information Routing
05:00 The Roman Legions to Railroads Through-Line
06:30 Where AI Takes Over Routing
08:00 Bundle Two: Sense Making
10:30 Why Sense Making Resists Automation
12:30 Bundle Three: Accountability and Feedback
14:30 What Happens If AI Gets 10x Better?
16:00 Case Study One: Kimi's Radical Flat Structure
19:00 Case Study Two: Jack Dorsey and Block's DRI Model
22:00 Case Study Three: Meta's Compression Play
25:30 What This Means for Managers and ICs
27:00 The Decomposition Playbook
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