How Are Organizations Adapting to AI in 2026?

How Are Organizations Adapting to AI in 2026? Excerpts from Open to Work: How to Get Ahead In the Age of AI Published on Mar 19, 2026 Categories: Company News

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Each week on LinkedIn, Ryan Roslansky and Aneesh Raman break down whats actually happening inside organizations as AI moves from promise to practice. Drawing on insights across LinkedIn and Microsofts expansive view of the world of work, they show how companies are learning, adjusting, and redefining work in real time.

You're Not Lost. You're in the Middle. When people talk about technological change, the story is usually told in clean phases:

A breakthrough appears

Companies adopt it

Productivity rises

New industries form

What gets skipped is the part most people actually live through. The messy middle.

The messy middle is the period where:

AI tools are available, but not fully integrated

Organizations are still redesigning workflows and roles

Individuals are trying to understand where they add the most value

Ryan discusses more about the messy middle (and how to navigate it) in this Open to Work newsletter.

What Should Businesses Organize Around? What Humans Do Best. For the last century, we organized work around what technology could do best. Now we have the chance to structure work around what humans do best: imagine, invent, adapt, and build. Organizations that thrive in the AI era will stop building around static roles and start structuring around the work itself. Aneesh explains more of this perspective in this video.

The Outcome Isnt Written Yet So how should we, as leaders, be thinking about whats coming? Start by sitting with the difficulty of the real questions honestly. Will overall employment go up or down? Which jobs will disappear? Which will endure? Anyone claiming certainty on these questions right now is selling something. The honest answer is that we dont know - and that the uncertainty itself is the argument for urgency, not passivity. Ryan delves into this in more depth in the latest Open to Work newsletter.

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How to Pre-Order Open to Work Open To Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI will be released simultaneously in physical, eBook and audio formats in the English language worldwide by HarperCollins on March 31, 2026. Pre-orders are available now at linkedin.com/opentowork with international translations to follow.

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