Work Without Jobs

We need a new operating system built on deconstructed jobs and organizational agility.

Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau

January 05, 2021

Leaders need a new operating system for work — one that better supports the high degree of organizational agility required to thrive amid increasingly rapid change and disruption, and that better reflects the fluidity of modern work and working arrangements.

In our last two books, we’ve argued that this new system must enable leaders and workers to increasingly — and continually — deconstruct jobs into more granular units such as tasks, and that it must identify and deploy workers based on their skills and capabilities, not their job descriptions.¹ Deconstructing work is essential to implementing ...