25 Remake Work
It is 6:47 in the morning.
She sits in her car in the parking lot, coffee going cold, and cannot bring herself to open the door.
She is not lazy.
She is not ungrateful.
She has the title. The salary. The resume that opens any door.
And she is one of nearly four out of five people who are no longer engaged at work.
The problem is not her.
It is the architecture.
For over a century, we've been running modern work on an operating system designed for the industrial era-hierarchies, bureaucracy, and systems that treat people like interchangeable parts.
We've tried to fix it:
better managersmore toolsmore meetingsmore "culture"Nothing worked.
Because the problem was never execution.
It was the system itself.
This book is not about improving work.
It's about replacing it.
In 25, Matan Elmalam introduces a radical, evidence-backed blueprint for the next architecture of work:
Small, autonomous teams of 25 peopleAI as a real-time coordination layer (not another tool)Organizations designed around how humans actually think, collaborate, and growThis isn't theory.
It's the convergence of:
neuroscience (how humans actually function in groups)computer science (how distributed intelligence scales)real-world experience building high-performing teamsWhat you'll discoverWhy 79% of people are disengaged-and why it's not fixable inside current systemsHow hierarchy creates invisible drag that kills speed, innovation, and meaningWhy resumes, performance reviews, and org charts fundamentally misunderstand peopleHow AI can eliminate coordination overhead-and what replaces managementThe exact structure of a "25 organization" and how to build one
Who this is forFounders who know their company is slowing down as it growsLeaders tired of managing systems instead of building things that matterProfessionals who feel the gap between success... and meaningAnyone who has ever sat in a parking lot and wondered:
"Is this really what work is supposed to feel like?"
This is not a book you agree with.
It's a book you argue with.
A book that challenges assumptions you didn't realize you were making.
A book that makes the current system impossible to unsee.
The future of work is not coming.
It's waiting to be built.
Customer Reviews
ThriftBooks ® and the ThriftBooks ® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
