If AI Does the Junior Work, Who Will Build the Seniors?
The hidden talent challenge behind the AI productivity revolution
Ideas
How I think about the problem
Expertise is what I have done. This is what I make of it: the way I work, the frameworks in the book, and the writing where I test both against what I see.
The Logician-Engineer Method
Why complex transformation fails when strategy, architecture, data, processes and adoption are treated as separate projects, and the three-stage sequence I use instead: diagnose, architect, make it live.
Frameworks
Five frameworks from The Death of Skills: Potential Stack, Time-to-Skill, Fortress · Front Line · Laboratory, Trajectory Radar and Pay-for-Agility. Each one frames a management question that a skills inventory is not built to answer.
The book
The structured expression of these ideas. The Death of Skills argues that AI exposes the limits of skills-based talent models and forces organisations to rethink potential, adaptability and learning velocity.
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