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LeSS Talks: The Real Drivers of Layoffs Beyond AI, With Gabriel Steinhardt

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A recent live discussion featuring Gabriel Steinhardt, founder of Blackblot and one of the most seasoned voices in technology product management, cuts through the noise around one of the most consequential trends in the industry: mass tech layoffs. Gabriel Steinhardt’s argument is blunt — AI is not the primary driver. It’s a convenient story. The … Read more

Working Hard Or Working Smart? What Will Prevail In The Era of AI?

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There is a striking irony in how modern software development evolved over the last two decades. An industry that once promised creativity, innovation, engineering craftsmanship, and human collaboration has, in many organizations, quietly drifted toward the same industrial management patterns that dominated textile factories more than a century ago. Imagine a crowded garment factory filled … Read more

The Inevitable Shift: AI, Project Management, and the End of Low-Intellect Work

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A New Reality: AI Is Not Coming—It Is Already Here Artificial Intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept cautiously explored in innovation labs. It is already embedded in the operational fabric of organizations, quietly but decisively reshaping how work gets done. Nowhere is this more visible than in project management and PMO structures, where traditional … Read more

You May Still Need Bald and Gray-Haired Peeps

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In 2012 movie Battleship, Lt. Alex Hopper, who assumed the command of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones, with help of Japanese captain Yugi Nagata, for the final battle with hostile alien invaders, called upon the old-Navy crew of the WWII-era battleship USS Missouri (BB-63). At the moment of critical need, gray-haired and bald people … Read more

AI Fever and the Great Hiring Implosion: When Machines Hire Machines

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Somewhere between the “AI revolution” and the “future of work,” companies collectively lost their minds. In a frenzy to look innovative and data-driven, they handed over one of their most critical human functions—hiring other humans—to algorithms that can’t even explain their own decisions. The result? A beautiful mess of corporate self-sabotage wrapped in buzzwords, dashboards, … Read more