This artcile resonates deeply with what I'm seeing across my consulting work. The shift from managing people to orchestrating systems is happening faster than most organizations realize, and your framing of the Solo Chief captures that perfectly. I've been advicing a mid-sized company where their best performing managers aren't the ones with the biggest teams anymore but the ones who've figured out how to weave AI tools into every workflow. That convergence you describe isn't coming, its already here for anyone paying attention.
It's funny - as a solopreneur you of course have the freedom to make up whatever jobtitle suits you best and the one I ended up with a year ago was "chief human". Gotta let the agents know who is in charge.
This captures a real shift in where accountability is concentrating as AI collapses coordination costs and quietly removes the buffer of teams. Coordination has collapsed inward, leaving the individual to hold the whole shape together.
This artcile resonates deeply with what I'm seeing across my consulting work. The shift from managing people to orchestrating systems is happening faster than most organizations realize, and your framing of the Solo Chief captures that perfectly. I've been advicing a mid-sized company where their best performing managers aren't the ones with the biggest teams anymore but the ones who've figured out how to weave AI tools into every workflow. That convergence you describe isn't coming, its already here for anyone paying attention.
Great to hear about your validation. Thanks!
It's funny - as a solopreneur you of course have the freedom to make up whatever jobtitle suits you best and the one I ended up with a year ago was "chief human". Gotta let the agents know who is in charge.
Related: https://substack.com/@exponentialview/note/c-213463988
OK Jürgen, keep pushing I am listening.
This captures a real shift in where accountability is concentrating as AI collapses coordination costs and quietly removes the buffer of teams. Coordination has collapsed inward, leaving the individual to hold the whole shape together.