25 REMAKE WORK

The system was broken. Not you.

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.

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 managers
• more tools
• more meetings
• more "culture"

Nothing worked.

Because the problem was never execution.

It was the system itself.

In 25, Matan Elmalam introduces a radical, evidence-backed blueprint for the next architecture of work:

• Small, autonomous teams of ~25 people
• AI as a real-time coordination layer (not another tool)
• Organizations designed around how humans actually think, collaborate, and grow

This 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 teams

• Why 79% of people are disengaged-and why it's not fixable inside current systems
• How hierarchy creates invisible drag that kills speed, innovation, and meaning
• Why resumes, performance reviews, and org charts fundamentally misunderstand people
• How AI can eliminate coordination overhead-and what replaces management
• The exact structure of a "25 organization" and how to build one

• Founders who know their company is slowing down as it grows
• Leaders tired of managing systems instead of building things that matter
• Professionals who feel the gap between success... and meaning
• Anyone who has ever sat in a parking lot and wondered:
  "Is this really what work is supposed to feel like?"

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.

It's waiting to be built.