🚨 A plan from Jack Dorsey's Block aims to eliminate middle management and replace it with AI.
Not just productivity apps. Not copilots. A structural substitution.
🚨 A plan from Jack Dorsey's Block aims to eliminate middle management and replace it with AI.
Not just productivity apps. Not copilots. A structural substitution.
No permanent middle management layer. No status meetings. No alignment sessions.
The wager: the true constraint in large organizations is coordination, not effort — and coordination is now framed as an AI problem
The argument:
Middle management exists for one thing: routing information. Managers shuttle context up and down so decisions can be made. That's the sole purpose.
Block's claim: AI can handle that better.
What Block is building instead:
→ A company world model that monitors work, bottlenecks, and outcomes in real time
→ A customer world model derived from transaction data rather than surveys
→ An intelligence layer that composes solutions the moment a need appears
Human roles that remain:
→ ICs who build and run capabilities
→ DRIs who own cross-team problems with full authority
→ Player-coaches who develop people and craft
The Roman army invented the org chart 2,000 years ago. Block just published a plan to make it obsolete