Alexis Krivkovich and the McKinsey team just published a clear signal of where…
Humans and AI agents (virtual and physical) working side by side at scale. AI-first workflows. Flat networks of outcome-aligned agentic teams. Proprietary data as the real competitive moat. Governance, culture, and operating models redesigned around this new paradigm.
This isn’t incremental automation. It’s the largest operating-model shift since the industrial and digital revolutions.
In our book, Designed for Volatility, to be published in November, we’ve been building the practical playbook for exactly this kind of shift. Volatility isn’t something to withstand — it’s the force that exposes fragility and forces the redesign. AI is the ultimate stress test: it surfaces weak decision rights, brittle workflows, outdated talent models, and misaligned incentives. The organizations that treat that exposure as fuel — protecting the core, building option portfolios, and running tight 90-day learning cadences — will be the ones that actually achieve the agentic organization, rather than just talking about it.
The future belongs to companies designed so that volatility (and AI) makes them stronger.
Proud of the work Alexis and the McKinsey team are doing to map the contours of this next paradigm.
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