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Skills-based structure, minus the hype

Skills-based organisation design is useful and oversold in roughly equal measure.

Skills-based structure, minus the hype

Mapping work to skills rather than fixed roles genuinely helps with mobility and hiring. It also generates a large taxonomy that needs an owner or it rots.

Adopt it narrowly

The teams that get value start with one or two workforce decisions — internal mobility, or critical-role succession — and expand only if those pay off.

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