Recently read Reshuffle, by Sangeet Paul Choudary.
Thx to CEO, Dale Cyr, who introduced me to it and worked together with me to apply it to his organization’s evolution.
I highly recommend it to anyone thinking seriously about the future of work, leadership, and value creation in an AI-enabled world.
What makes this book stand out is not just its insight, but how clearly it names patterns many of us are already sensing but haven’t fully articulated. Three ideas in particular stayed with me:
1. AI: Organizing and Coordinating Force
We tend to think of AI as a tool for efficiency. Reshuffle goes further. It shows how AI is rapidly becoming a coordination engine, stitching together people, tasks, and workflows in ways that were previously impossible. This is not incremental improvement. It is a structural shift in how work gets done.
2. Unbundling and Rebundling Skill Sets
Every major technological wave reshapes what it means to be “skilled.” This book makes that dynamic explicit. Roles are breaking apart into component capabilities and then recombining in new ways. The implication is profound: advantage will go to those who can continuously reconfigure their own capabilities and teams.
3. Tool vs. Solution
This distinction is gold. Many organizations are adopting AI as a tool layered onto existing processes. But the real opportunity lies in designing end-to-end solutions where AI is native to the outcome. That requires rethinking the work itself and goes beyond accelerating it.
For those of us working at the intersection of strategy, innovation, AI, and large-scale change, Reshuffle provides language and lens.
Of course, there’s much more. Great writing. Easy to digest. Choudary is a great teacher. Hearty recommendation.
