---
id: "quote-organizational-readiness"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ From the What to the Why", "¶23"]
tags: ["future-of-work", "strategic-planning"]
related: ["concept-organizational-readiness"]
speaker: "Sangeet Paul Choudary and John Winsor"
speakers: ["Sangeet Paul Choudary", "John Winsor"]
sources: ["tail1"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-tail1"
originDay: 1
articleStem: "hbr-tail-112-continually-assessing-performance"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/the-pros-and-cons-of-continually-assessing-performance"
sourceTitle: "The Pros and Cons of Continually Assessing Performance"
---
# Authors on the New Era of Organizational Readiness

> "Historically, eras were organized around functions, processes, and projects. The coming era will organize around readiness: that is, an organization's continually updated capacity to act at the moving boundary of human-machine collaboration."

— **[[entity-sangeet-paul-choudary]]** and **[[entity-john-winsor]]**

The closing thesis statement of the piece and the source definition for [[concept-organizational-readiness]]. It reframes continuous assessment from an HR tactic into the organizing principle of the next competitive era.