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But ... Amazon for example redesigns i are ouse picking to make employees fungible. I am pretty sure project management is becoming totally fungible - the repo

But ... Amazon for example redesigns i are ouse picking to make employees fungible. I am pretty sure project management is becoming totally fungible - the reporting and chasing and so forth, can be replaced by automation and is becoming so despite best efforts of millions of "mqnagers" Something intrigues me about this idea. The film / book "Moneyball" showed how to re-create great players "in the aggregate". I think that we will soon enter a phase of "MOOP" - measuring our daily activities on a deep basis, phone calls to colleagues and clients, tonality, agreements and actions etc. And at this point redesigning an organisation to recreate CFOs or salespeople "in the aggregate" becomes ... possible? And if you can do that you get close to the ability to create that fungible option - and close to valuing the job.

sokoloff 5y ago
Your first line has some auto-correct line noise in it, but I think I get the gist of your post. Moneyball to me was a lesson and framework on how to make great teams, not great [individual] players. Focusing on under-valued qualities allowed the A’s to build a pennant-winning team on a low budget, by selecting free-agent players the baseball operations groups at other teams were over-looking/under-valuing. Coming back to software, I think many of us know the three people we’d go form a startup with and the 50% of people who might be okay but we’d never sign up to start a company with. I don’t know if that is amenable to a Moneyball-style spreadsheet analysis though. If it is, VC firms would pay billions in aggregate for a working system.