Here's an interesting post on org charts in the agentic AI age from Block's Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha. A few observations after a lot of long talking:

  • Block sees three roles in the org chart. Individual contributors, directly responsible individuals on the hook for outcomes and player coaches.
  • "There is no need for a permanent middle management layer. Everything else the old hierarchy did, the system coordinates, and everyone is empowered, with a role that's much closer to the work and the customer."
  • "At Block, we're questioning the underlying assumption: that organizations have to be hierarchically organized with humans as the coordination mechanism. Instead, we intend to replace what the hierarchy does. Most companies using AI today are giving everyone a copilot, which makes the existing structure work slightly better without changing it. We're after something different: a company built as an intelligence (or mini-AGI)."