AI won’t fix your productivity problem.
Too many leaders treat AI like magic, plug it in and wait for results.
But productivity gains don’t come from better tools. They come from better thinking.
Get back to first-principles.
What is the job we are trying to get done?
What is the value we are delivering?
To unlock AI’s full value, we need to rethink how work is structured, not just automate what already exists.
That means:
1. Deconstruct jobs into tasks so you understand what to augment and what to automate
2. Redeploy tasks to the right mix of humans and machines. Which tasks can shift from senior-level tasks to junior staff.
3. Build new workflows from the ground up
Productivity isn’t about effort, it’s about flow. We need to find the bottlenecks and solve real problems.
Sometimes the best way to speed things up isn’t to optimize, it’s to redesign.
So here’s the real question:
If you started from the work, not the tech, what would you redesign first?
