Flash Teams

How AI Is Changing Talent, Not Just Tasks: Rethinking Where Human Judgment Matters Most

HBR IdeaCast, 17 September 2026. The book comes up at 18 min 14 sec in.

Paula Goldman briefly cites Flash Teams by Melissa Valentine while discussing an 'extreme version' of workforce agility in which individual skills are made legible and workers are dynamically matched to projects as needs evolve. She presents this model as increasingly achievable and as context for describing the slower, function-by-function workforce re-architecting she observes in practice.

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