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Leadership after the end of the specialist era.
For 250 years we built careers like ladders - vertical, one identity deep. AI just took the ladder away. It won't take your job. It takes your tasks - and if your job is a pile of tasks, it's gone. What remains is horizontal.
Manuscript complete · ~42,000 words
Depth used to be the career strategy; now it’s a subscription. Dorka Nagy-Józsa writes from inside this disruption with rare honesty and hard-won optimism, helping leaders learn horizontal thinking as the defining leadership discipline of our time. For anyone navigating the shift from expert to leader, this book delivers.
Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach · New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Since the first fire, humanity ran exactly one project: a tool that does our work for us. The project just shipped.
AI is the tool we've been building since the first fire. It doesn't take your job. It takes your tasks - and a job that's just a pile of tasks is already gone.
Ownership - putting your name on an outcome, not a task. Seeing across domains, now that depth costs twenty dollars a month. And the creativity that only shows up when you disconnect.
Leading humans and leading AI agents look like the same job. They aren't. The quiet experts who never wanted to manage anyone are about to run the biggest teams of their lives.
The practice - as a person, as a leader, as an organization - between now and 2030. Every chapter ends with something you can actually do.
A table of contents is just a ladder. This book argues the interesting things happen across - so here is the same book, horizontally. Pick the route that matches your Monday.
On stage - from conference rooms in Budapest to the IFPSM World Summit keynote in Xiamen, China.
Horizontal Thinking is a leadership book about what remains for people when AI takes over tasks: ownership of outcomes, seeing across domains, and leading both humans and AI agents. Its subtitle is Leadership after the end of the specialist era.
Careers used to be built like ladders: vertical, one identity deep. The book argues that the valuable work now happens across domains, so leaders need to own outcomes instead of tasks and connect expertise instead of stacking it.
Dorka Nagy-Józsa, ICF PCC coach, international keynote speaker and CEO of Y2Y Ltd., a leadership development company in Budapest. She has written weekly about leadership and work since 2016.
The manuscript is complete (about 42,000 words) and heading to publishers; the book is planned for 2027. Join the waitlist to get early chapters and launch news.
Leaders and experts whose jobs are changing under them, people who already work with AI agents, and anyone who owns an org chart that no longer matches how the work gets done.
The author speaks about these ideas on stage: Dorka Nagy-Józsa, keynote speaker on AI and leadership. Leadership development and coaching: Y2Y Ltd.
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