Hason Greene

Founder, HumInt Labs | Building the terminal to diligence, value and invest in companies according to their human capital.

[Hason Greene @Hason_Greene]

Welcome to my profile!

I am a human capital specialist, human resources generalist, and founder of HumInt Labs.

I post about the human capital ecosystem, including but not limited to, human capital measurement and reporting, Human Capital Management, Performance Management, Talent Management, Human Resources, worker’s rights, the future/world of work, and HCM/HR/Work tech.

THESIS:

Talent is a company’s greatest asset and only real differentiator and competitive advantage.

The true value of a company’s health is as much a measure of its human capital as its financial capital, which is why a company’s financial health should never be achieved at the expense of its worker health.

Fortunately, the data tells us these two are not in conflict. By more strategically investing in and better managing a company’s human capital, you improve its performance and financial capital position.

This is where HumInt Labs comes in.

MISSION:

HumInt Labs, with its human capital diligence and valuation IP, partners with investment firms to better diligence, value and manage the human capital inside their firms and investments. We also advise on all things work, Talent and Human Resources.

Additionally, we are building the Bloomberg Terminal for human capital data, to enable investors, boards and analysts to better diagnose, value, invest in and trade on companies according to their human capital as much as their financial capital.

You can find me, my beliefs and my work at:

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> [email protected]

#humancapital
#humancapitaldiligence
#humancapitalmanagement
#performancemanagement
#humanresources

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Warren Buffett: "If the whole world lived by the Golden Rule, it would be such a more wonderful society."

"[It's] true for everything from parenthood to being a boss. Just everything in life."

"I've never seen anybody who's unhappy that behaved [according to the Golden Rule]."

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

The most underrated hiring signal:
the Give-a-Shit Quotient.

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

Billionaires didn’t earn their wealth, they perfected wage theft at scale. No one works a billion times harder than a nurse or farmer. The system rewards extraction, not creation. Stop calling it merit.

[Hason Greene @Hason_Greene]

Managers as ‘Organizational Engineers’.

#humancapitalmatters

[Maurizio @themgmtconsult]

99% of VCs on my feed is parroting the same stuff: "The Agentic Era is here. Teams of 3 will build $100M companies, and management is dead."

My side is different. I have spent the last 20 years in the trenches, scaled organizations across 4 continents, and looked at many many P&Ls.

This idea that managers won't matter in an AI world is completely laughable.

I get the Silicon Valley purists theory telling you that "Agent Orchestration Layers" (basically AI managing AI) will solve world hunger.....

They think Team A's agent will automatically negotiate timelines and APIs with Team B's agent, completely eliminating the need for a human middleman.

For basic technical coordination, they may end up being right - the "just checking in on your status" manager will be absolutely dead - but do they realize that AI making it 10x cheaper and easier to achieve massive output, will result into MORE teams?

Instead of 2 massive, bloated departments, a company is going to have 50 hyper-lean specialized human-agent squads.

More teams mean more fragmentation.

Agents can sync data endpoints, but they cannot handle political alignment, resource competition, corporate vision, budget reallocation because of bad press.

Let me tell you who will steer the ship when 50 micro-teams are all sprinting in different directions competing for the same capital and brand equity.

Humans!!

Tech optimists say "Well, the baseline LLMs are a utility, but the companies with proprietary data flywheels will be superior."

Sure, great theory. But who curates that data? Who decides which workflows to build? Everyone has access to the same top-tier models!

The differentiator defaults right back to humanity.

You categorically CANNOT take humans out of the equation and somehow expect unique, market-defining innovation.

The moat is the organizational design that allows your people to direct the machine better than the competition.

And so I think we are heading into a hybrid period that is going to take a solid 5 to 10 years to fine-tune.

Managers aren't going away but their role will change.

As a manager, you may no longer managing daily tasks, but more a complex ecosystem of human psychology and high-velocity algorithmic execution.

Think about the leverage: if a human employee messes up, it takes a few days to notice. If an autonomous agent messes up, it cascades across your entire enterprise in 4s. The room for error is ~0.

The headcount of traditional middle management is possibly going to shrink (to be seen though... Always remember the Scaled Agile promises....), but in any case the importance of managers will be off the charts.

Don't buy the hype. Great management is about to become the ultimate unfair advantage.

[Hason Greene @Hason_Greene]

Just finished Incorruptible by @ericries and it has been my favorite read so far this year.

[Eric Ries @ericries]

"A critically important book for anyone who wants to do good in the world."

— Ben Adida, Executive Director, VotingWorks

https://t.co/yZo27uWem2

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

Before you sell,
Before you quit,
Before you step down

Remember at best, we have 3 >real< start-ups in us as founders.

And often just 1 good one.

If you have any traction at all -- maybe find a way to make this one work.

[Hal Singer @halsinger]

Neoliberals bemoan minimum wages hikes for fear that higher wages for low-income workers will translate into higher prices, but they are completely silent when it comes to pay hikes for CEOs.

[Hason Greene @Hason_Greene]

@jmwind 🔥

[Hason Greene @Hason_Greene]

“organizations that prioritize [ human capital considerations ] in M&A are eleven times more likely to outperform their peers” - i4cp

https://t.co/CwIqYoRyOm

[Hason Greene @Hason_Greene]

To protect against the corruption of extractive capitalism, read @ericries’ Incorruptible.

‘Chapter 9: Constitutional Governance’ offers a clear but thorough ‘how to’ for exactly this.

(Ignore the coffee stains)

[Eric Ries @ericries]

"It's always too early until it's too late."

— Anne Lidgard, Vinnova, on Incorruptible

https://t.co/enEJbtkMhq

[Hason Greene @Hason_Greene]

@firstadopter Are you implying the people you listed are incompetent and/or serve their audiences poorly? If so, what led you to this conclusion of them?

[Hason Greene @Hason_Greene]

@thdxr 👇

[Theresa Payton ✪ @TrackerPayton]

Paragraph 111: The Appeal to Developers
“Developers, therefore, bear a particular ethical and spiritual responsibility, for every design choice reflects a vision of humanity. Just as the creator of an artistic or literary work must consider the values it conveys, so developers are called to embed values in their projects with due seriousness: with transparency, responsibility toward affected communities and careful attention to ensuring that what is being cultivated is a genuine good.” -- Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas

[Hason Greene @Hason_Greene]

@thdxr How do morals corrupt? Do you have examples?

A company’s culture is the owners’ morals, values and decisions scaled (where owners are founders, board, etc).

Whether it remains that way or becomes a victim of ‘financial gravity’ is a matter of governance.

Curious to hear what @ericries thinks.

[Theresa Payton ✪ @TrackerPayton]

Paragraph 111: The Appeal to Developers
“Developers, therefore, bear a particular ethical and spiritual responsibility, for every design choice reflects a vision of humanity. Just as the creator of an artistic or literary work must consider the values it conveys, so developers are called to embed values in their projects with due seriousness: with transparency, responsibility toward affected communities and careful attention to ensuring that what is being cultivated is a genuine good.” -- Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

For years, CEOs have sold a story that a $15 minimum wage would kill jobs.

The Washington establishment bought this trickle-down lie, and workers paid the price.

But the evidence debunks that myth.

It's long past time to raise the minimum wage.

[Overeducated Gibbon @MostlyMonkey]

Be the reason your company needs an HR department.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

No one earns a billion dollars. Billionaires exist because millions of workers are paid far less than the value they create. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a farmer, or a teacher. Stop glorifying wealth hoarders. They’re just professional wage thieves.

[Long-Term Stock Exchange @ltse]

In a @FastCompany essay, Founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange @ericries argues that many fears about #AI are ultimately fears about institutions, incentives, and systems optimized for the wrong outcomes.

“If we want different outcomes, we cannot just ask what our machines are optimizing for. We have to ask the same question of our organizations.”

https://t.co/gaMzJcl9zZ

[James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ @provisionalidea]

“let them eat compute”