Great piece. It’s fascinating to watch the best practices of organizational design and behavior re-written in near realtime.

Ironic that building successful Agentic systems to do things at scale and speed beyond human capacity highlights the value of those rare and talented individuals who can work through the very human reasons it’s hard to build clean data systems, get cross-fucntional cooperation during workflow redesign and all things associated with change management. I’m also reminded of all the transformation projects that failed without effective executive sponsorship. This made me think it might be worth re-reading the classics Re-engineering the Corporation and Teaching the Elephant to Dance.

This also made me appreciate the escalating battle between the AI-native companies who can engineer more efficient agentic workflows from scratch and the existing firms that have gobs of data and existing customers.