Job Security: Not Just Learning AI
Why Your Company's Culture Matters More Than Your Tech Skills in the Age of AI
Everyone keeps saying it’s not AI that will replace you, but the person who uses it. And so you’re told: use AI, keep developing nonstop, and then you won’t get fired. But to me, the real subject here is not so much the employee as the business owner and his bugs in the head.
How many stakeholders out there are actually ready to reshape the business and declare new ambitious goals so there’s enough meaningful work for everyone and the team can be kept? Or just admit that now we can work less and, say, move to a four‑day week? Such people are clearly a minority. And those will be teams where they ALREADY value real collaboration and fight not each other, but the PROBLEM.
Accelerated tech learning (when squirrel spinning the wheel faster and faster) guarantees nothing. It’s only a necessary condition in the employment criterion. The sufficient one is belonging to a Stage 4 team (see the book “Tribal Leadership”), where people direct ambition not toward competing with colleagues but toward attacking the problem.
