My father was diagnosed with cancer. I came home. And somewhere between daily grocery runs with my mom and the weight of the bags I carried back for her, I found the thing I'd been missing in every productivity framework I'd ever built: there's no KPI for presence. In the age of AI, our competitive advantage isn't doing things faster. It's knowing what shouldn't be rushed at all.

We're living through a Moneyball moment at work — businesses are adopting AI, but running it on organizational operating systems built for a completely different game. The skills that will define the next decade of work aren't being measured, taught, or rewarded yet. Here's what needs to change, in both our organizations and our schools, and why the two have to happen simultaneously.