Here’s How Managers Can Be Replaced by Software
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iCEO illustrates another fact we need to face now: Corporate organizations are themselves a technology, one that has only existed in its current form for around 200 years, a fragment of human history. The corporate structure was created around the tools we had back in the 18th century to maximize scale while minimizing transaction costs. Now that structure is being disrupted by the advent of technologies which can accomplish many (if not most) of the projects we associate with corporations. With traditional organizations no longer necessary to create many things at scale, they are likely to be challenged by a new generation of alternative technologies for getting things done.
Senior executives must wake up to this inevitability and join the conversation on the future of work, which only seems to be taking place at the policy level. We need real solutions that enhance work environments, increase employment opportunities, and provide new kinds of worker flexibility, to the benefit of all. And like the rest of us, executives face the option of helping build those solutions now — or watch as their roles are automated out of existence.
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