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Reorganize Yourself: How to Restructure Your Career Around AI Before Your Company Does

Last month, Microsoft laid off nearly 9,000 employees, not because AI automated their jobs overnight, but because the company is reorganizing itself around AI.


This wasn’t a story of bots replacing humans. It was a top-down shift in priorities, resources, and structure. And it’s not just Microsoft; this is a wave affecting every industry.


But here’s the question nobody’s asking:

If companies are reorganizing themselves around AI, why aren’t you?

The Personal Reorg: Why You Need One


Most professionals are waiting for their employer to define how AI will shape their role. 

That’s a mistake.


In today’s economy, the people who thrive won’t be the ones who hold on to yesterday’s job descriptions. They’ll be the ones who proactively reorganize their own role around what AI can do and what only they can do.


This doesn’t mean becoming a prompt engineer. It means reshaping your time, skills, and value to align with where the leverage is shifting.


Real-World Example: The Marketing Manager


Old Structure:


  • 60% campaign execution

  • 30% reporting and performance tracking

  • 10% strategy


With AI:


  • AI handles email drafts, ad copy, and basic reporting

  • The marketer now shifts to:


New Role:


  • 50% strategic experimentation

  • 30% orchestration and oversight of AI tools

  • 20% human connection, storytelling, collaboration, decision-making


How to Reorganize Yourself (Before Your Boss Does)


1. Audit Your Workload


List out everything you do in a week. Then mark:


  • ✅ What AI could reasonably handle (e.g., summarizing meetings, drafting emails, generating ideas)

  • 💥 What only you can do (e.g., applying context, influencing stakeholders, making judgment calls)


2. Automate the Bottom 30%


Utilize tools like ChatGPT, Notion AI, or Excel Copilot to automate low-leverage tasks. Treat this like reclaiming hours you can reinvest.

“You’re not using AI to replace your job. You’re using it to remove the friction that keeps you from doing your job at its highest level.”

3. Reallocate Your Time


Shift your calendar to reflect the new org chart of you:


  • More time on deep thinking, storytelling, synthesis, and decision-making

  • Less time on formatting slides, updating dashboards, and writing first drafts


4. Define Your Edge


If AI is handling the baseline, how will you stand out? Examples:


  • A salesperson who knows how to ask better questions, not just read off a script

  • A product manager who sees market patterns that AI can't yet detect

  • An analyst who doesn't just crunch numbers, but ties them to business strategy


Think Like a Company


When Microsoft reorganizes around AI, they ask:


  • What functions do we need less of?

  • Where are we doubling down?

  • What structure will get us to the next level?


You should ask the same.


  • What tasks should you eliminate, automate, or delegate?

  • Where can you create more strategic impact?

  • What would your “job description” look like if you rebuilt it from scratch, optimized for the AI-powered world?


Final Thought


If you wait for your company to reorganize your role around AI, you’re already behind.

Be the person who evolves faster than the org chart.


Because the most secure jobs in the age of AI aren’t the ones that survive the reorg. They’re the ones that lead it.

 
 
 
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