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A doctrinal book, not an opinion book. The Death of Skills offers an executive readership — HR directors, executive committees, finance leadership — a decision grid for steering HR transformation in the age of generative AI. The book makes a strong claim: skills mapping has lost its operational usefulness. It draws the consequences for recruitment, compensation, steering and HRIS architecture.

A clearly identified audience. The book is aimed at leaders of large private and public organisations, HR directorates, HRIS managers, finance leadership concerned with human capital valuation, and students of executive management programmes. Five precise personae are addressed: the Group HR Director, the CFO, the HRIS Director, the Executive Committee member and the HR-Tech analyst.

A differentiating editorial design. Fifteen chapters organised into three sections (diagnosis, doctrine, execution), five named and trademark-able operational frameworks, a thirty-five-page practical guide with ten ready-to-use tools. The book is complemented by a bilingual official site that extends each chapter (articles, anonymized cases, bonus calculator, maturity diagnostic).

An author trajectory. Ahmed Assalih is a recognized expert on the HR function and HRIS. His practice rests on fifteen years of consulting and operations in CAC 40 groups, public operators and international institutions. His technical legitimacy sets him apart from the classical HR editorial output, more often anchored in coaching or social sciences.

A window display argument. The deliberately frontal title is a call to conversation. The book’s pivot sentence — “nobody has accounted for the cost of human latency” — makes an excellent feature on a thematic management table.