Today on the AI Daily Brief, in the age of AI and agents, here's why work charts beat org charts.

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All right, so I am very excited for this edition of the Long Read Sunday slash

Big Think Style weekend episode.

This one is coming out on my birthday, so I wanted to do something fun with it.

And I recently ran across this idea that was just instantly resonant to me. And I think we'll be to a lot of

you as well, especially those of you who are trying to figure out how to make AI and particularly

agents work inside your organizations and enterprises. The original source of this was actually

another podcast. For those of you who don't listen to Lenny's podcast, you absolutely should.

Lenny Richitsky always has really interesting people on

with a heavy concentration around product and product management, but not exclusively. And he

recently had a conversation with Microsoft's AI platform product lead, Asha Sharma. Sharma said

something which was at once blisteringly obvious, but at the same time, super interesting.

The org chart starts to become the

work chart. Tasks and throughput become more important than they have before. You just don't need

as many layers. Sharma continued, you're not going to start to think in hierarchy and communicating

upward. You're going to start to figure out, like, kind of outward task-based type of

opportunities. Business Insider continued, the big shift she added is also in the questions that

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