Articles — La Mort des Skills

Articles

Doctrine, cases, regulation, tools — the thinking that extends the book.

The cobbler paradox: why HR is the worst-equipped function for AI

The HR function advises every other department on AI transformation but rarely uses AI for its own processes. Anatomy of a costly paradox.

May 2, 2026 10 min read by Ahmed Assalih

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Pay-for-Agility: rethinking the variable bonus

Variable bonus grids reward the achievement of annual objectives. They ignore learning speed. Why this omission becomes a problem — and how to fix it.

April 29, 2026 8 min read by Ahmed Assalih

Doctrine

The Fortress / Front Line / Lab doctrine

Three zones, three risk regimes, three cadences. The operational grid to decide, process by process, where AI can enter the HR function — and where it must not.

April 22, 2026 12 min read by Ahmed Assalih

Doctrine

Time-to-Skill in banking

Why European banks struggle to shorten the lag between identifying a critical skill and its operational diffusion — and what HR leaders can do about it.

April 15, 2026 9 min read by Ahmed Assalih

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Case: LLM rollout in an industrial SME

How a 380-employee industrial SME integrated a generative assistant into its core ERP in seven months — and what the HR function learned about its own limits.

April 8, 2026 7 min read by Ahmed Assalih

Regulation

AI Act: three obligations reshaping HR

Beyond the general discourse on the AI Act, three precise obligations reshape the daily practice of HR functions. Operational decoding.

March 30, 2026 11 min read by Ahmed Assalih