I’ve spent more than twenty years building expertise. Strategy. Operations. Sales. Product. Leadership.

The playbook was clear: learn your domain, develop judgment, rise to the level where your experience becomes the asset.

Every promotion was a step further from the work and closer to the decisions.

That model made sense for decades. The higher you went, the less you needed to touch the tools, because the tools didn’t change fast enough to matter.

A CEO didn’t need to know how the CRM worked. They needed to know what the sales numbers meant and the levers it took to impact the numbers.

AI broke this.