This week, Coinbase cut 14 percent of its staff and singled out managers. Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky said AI will make people managers obsolete.
Maybe this makes you nervous or stirs up an emotion, given your current job title. But here is what the headline misses.
They aren't eliminating leaders. They are eliminating a box on an org chart. The person who schedules, reports, enforces, and sits between the work and the people doing it. That role is shrinking fast.
However, the person who develops talent and helps their team reach a level of performance they could not achieve on their own is not going anywhere. In fact, they are about to become the most valuable person in every organization running lean on AI. So just remember today,
Managing people and developing people are not the same thing, and they certainly don't carry the same value.
This week, I did something I have never done before.
I recorded a video to accompany the blog. Same topic, different format. Eight minutes. No script. Just the raw truth about why managers are getting cut right now and what separates the leaders who will always be valuable from the ones who were already in trouble before the layoffs came.
Watch it here: NEVER Get Promoted to Manager Before Watching This
If you would rather read, the full columbn is below, as always. But I think this one hits differently on video. Go watch it and tell me what you think.
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John Eades
Founder of LearnLoft | The Sales Infrastructure
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