Josh Bersin's Highly Anticipated New Book: AI Will Force Companies to Rethink Everything

• Successor to 2022's award-winning Irresistible, Superpowered reveals how the future belongs to "Supercompanies"—organizations that fuse human potential with AI to create more agile, adaptive, and capable ways of working
• Josh Bersin and Kathi Enderes show how AI will amplify people and force leaders to rethink jobs, management and organizational design, making the long-promised shift to skills-based HR possible
• The new competitive advantage is AI-boosted capability, putting CHROs at the center of turning talent into growth and innovation
• Arianna Huffington describes it as "an inspiring vision of the future", while Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri calls it "a book that every leader needs to read"

OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Josh Bersin Company, the world's most trusted HR advisory firm, today announced the title and themes of the eagerly awaited next executive leadership book from industry analyst and Josh Bersin Company CEO Josh Bersin entitled Superpowered: How AI Unlocks the Superpower of People, Leadership, and Teams.

A follow-on from Bersin's award-winning Irresistible (2022), described by Adam Grant as "a road map for creating more humane workplaces", Josh Bersin and co-author, Josh Bersin Company Senior VP Research and industry analyst Kathi Enderes will explain how a revolutionary new paradigm—the Supercompany—is transforming work by fusing human potential with AI, with profound implications for the corporate world and the global workforce. Arianna Huffington describes it as "an inspiring vision of the future," while Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri calls it "a book that every leader needs to read."

Set for publication on November 30, 2026, Superpowered offers evidence-based reflections about how AI will amplify individuals, reshape management, and challenge leaders to rethink jobs, hierarchies, decision-making and organizational design:

AI transformation: an organizational reinvention project

Through case studies from Microsoft, Walmart, ServiceNow, Moderna, DBS, Zurich, Schneider Electric and others, the authors show that AI success comes not from layering tools onto existing structures, but from rethinking how work, talent, management, performance and organizations themselves are designed.

No redesign, no AI return on investment

AI success does not mean buying the right models, deploying enough agents or automating enough processes, argue the authors. Companies can have thousands of AI tools and agents while still operating like a 20th-century corporation. Instead, CHROs need to keep asking: "If AI changes what is possible, why should we organize ourselves as we do today?"—liberating the new Supercompany from the old organization.

AI doesn't mean fewer people

Superpowered repeatedly cites evidence that organizations create more value when AI augments people and frees them for higher-value work.

This is where Josh Bersin Company's concept of greater "talent density" becomes important: concentrating people empowered by AI to solve problems, learn quickly, adapt and continually create value.

A new model of what a company looks like

Superpowered argues that AI makes traditional boundaries between jobs, functions and hierarchies increasingly unnecessary. As agents connect information across finance, HR, sales and operations, enterprises will increasingly organize around capabilities, outcomes and flows of work rather than jobs and functions—making the long-promised shift to skills-based HR possible.

HR is central in the move to Supercompanies

The CHRO should not see themselves simply as the facilitator of AI training, change or HR processes. Instead, the authors argue, AI shifts the CHRO's mandate from supporting transformation to helping design the organization being transformed.

This makes the CHRO a potential architect of the AI-enabled organization, working with the CEO, CIO, CFO and COO to design the human capabilities that enable the new Supercompany to flourish.

Commenting on the book, The Josh Bersin Company Senior VP Research Kathi Enderes, PhD, said:

"To write Superpowered with Josh was both a pleasure and an intellectual adventure. We spent many months talking to real practitioners and change-makers at the leading edge of the AI revolution to understand what's actually working—and just as critically, what isn't.

"The result is, I believe, a lot more than a mere set of predictions about the future of work. It is a fully grounded analysis of where we could go next if we choose to, particularly in HR."

The Josh Bersin Company CEO, Josh Bersin, said:

"The people Kathi and I spoke to for Superpowered were all adamant about one thing: that AI won't transform companies simply because they adopt it. The winners will be those willing to transform themselves in response to what AI makes possible.

"That means moving beyond automation and efficiency toward a new organizational model built around capabilities, fluid work, human-AI collaboration, continuous learning, and faster decision-making.

"We also believe the critical actors in that transformation will be Superworkers, who use AI to amplify their capabilities; Supermanagers, who orchestrate this new way of working; and ultimately Superleaders, who have the courage to redesign the organization itself.

"The end goal is the Supercompany: an organization capable of continuously learning, adapting and reinventing itself at the speed of intelligence.

"Our argument isn't that machines become more important than people: it's that AI gives organizations the opportunity to unlock far more of what people are capable of."

Testimonials from Superpowered reviewers

"Superpowered is the clearest roadmap I've seen for turning artificial intelligence into human advantage: more capable workers, denser talent, and companies that grow by developing people rather than churning through them."—Laszlo Bock, CEO coach and NYT bestselling author

"AI is moving from tool to teammate, and that shift is going to change how every company operates. The companies getting this right are redesigning their operating models around what people do best. Superpowered lays out how to make that shift, and it's a book that every leader needs to read."—Aneel Bhusri, Co-Founder, CEO, and Chair, Workday

"For decades, Josh Bersin has helped leaders anticipate how work is changing. In this important new book, he goes beyond describing AI to explain how organizations can redesign work so that technology amplifies, rather than diminishes, human potential. This is an optimistic, practical and timely guide for anyone leading organizations through the AI era."—Lynda Gratton, Professor, London Business School, and author of Living the 100-Year Life: How to build a career that lasts and a life you love.

"We know AI is transforming our jobs and lives, yet many of us have been left wondering exactly how this change will unfold. Superpowered offers both an inspiring vision of the future and practical, real-world advice on how organizations can create a more innovative, productive, and humane workplace." —Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

"Josh and Kathi do a remarkable job capturing the essence of the future of talent: AI x HI (human ingenuity). This new Superworker will recast the nature of the workforce. Their work offers compelling insights, integrating frameworks and pragmatic actions to guide this future."—Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan

Superpowered is available to purchase via pre-order here.

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