The Last Days of the Managerial Class | by Ryan Moser | Sep, 2025
2025-09-30
Artificial intelligence is dismantling the traditional management career pathway by automating the core tasks—research, analysis, communication, and coordination—that justified managerial roles and their prestige within corporate hierarchies. This disruption exposes a long-standing feature of American professional culture where status increased inversely with tangible output, revealing that much of what managers did was less essential than previously believed. The emerging economy now rewards domain expertise and measurable production over the "high optionality" and generalist credentials that once defined the fast track to executive positions.
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