I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall.

What's really happening inside the management layer your company just removed — and why it matters more than anyone is admitting?The common story is that flatter is faster — but the reality is more complicated: companies are cutting load-bearing structure without understanding what they're actually removing.In this video, I share the inside scoop on how to unbundle management in the age of AI:• Why management breaks into three jobs AI handles very differently • How Kimi, Block, and Meta are running three distinct real-world experiments • What gets lost when you compress instead of decompose the management role • Where human judgment stays irreplaceable even as LLMs scaleOperators and leaders who take the time to decompose what managers actually do — before automating or eliminating — will build more durable, higher-performing teams than those who simply cut and compress.Chapters 00:00 Introduction: The Management Removal Wave 01:30 What Do Managers Actually Do? 03:00 Bundle One: Information Routing 05:00 The Roman Legions to Railroads Through-Line 06:30 Where AI Takes Over Routing 08:00 Bundle Two: Sense Making 10:30 Why Sense Making Resists Automation 12:30 Bundle Three: Accountability and Feedback 14:30 What Happens If AI Gets 10x Better? 16:00 Case Study One: Kimi's Radical Flat Structure 19:00 Case Study Two: Jack Dorsey and Block's DRI Model 22:00 Case Study Three: Meta's Compression Play 25:30 What This Means for Managers and ICs 27:00 The Decomposition PlaybookSubscribe for daily AI strategy and news. For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/Full Story w/ Prompts: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/executive-briefing-44-of-companies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.