The Company Of The Future Might Fit In One Person’s Head

Block laid off nearly half its workforce in February.

Jack Dorsey, Block's founder, said intelligence tools paired with smaller, flatter teams enable a new way of working.

AI tools are being created and used, and Claude Cowork plugins are stripping away old models of how work gets done.

20th-century corporations were premised on economies of scale; HR departments tracked processes and people.

Offsite retreats were used to scale collaboration, and the article references Gerald F. Davis and films like Gung Ho, 9 to 5, and Wall Street.