THE DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER AI WILL REPLACE JOBS IS OVER.
“Those prepared need not fear the forces at work.”
— Mike Evans
Distinct or Extinct: Future-Proofing People and Organizations in the Age of AI
A single week as this book was being completed, 39 companies announced layoffs totaling more than 600,000 jobs. The CEO of Anthropic compared the threat to a tsunami visible on the horizon that most people are dismissing as a trick of the light. A leading venture capitalist declared that knowledge — the foundation of most professional value — is now worth zero.
This book is your defense.
WHY MIKE EVANS IS THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK
Mike Evans isn’t another AI expert who discovered disruption in 2023. He’s been tracking the seven converging forces that threaten work since 1995 — with AI as the most recent accelerant, not the original threat.
27 years. Executive roles at Kotter International, FranklinCovey, and Tom Peters Company. Working directly with Dr. John Kotter, Dr. Stephen Covey, and Tom Peters. 34 Fortune 50 companies including Intel, Apple, PepsiCo, and Caterpillar.
This is not theory. This is the pattern that separates the people telling the story from the cautionary tale.
CHAPTER 1 PREVIEW
Philadelphia, 1956. Mikey Calabrese works the docks. Containerization is already arriving. He can’t see it yet.
Shanghai, 2024. Chen Wei supervises AI systems at Yangshan Port. When automation eliminates his role, he already has three job offers and triples his former salary.
Same fundamental threat. 70 years apart. The only difference: timing and awareness.
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WHAT’S INSIDE
- The 7-Sided Pincer Movement: All seven forces converging on your career and organization — not just AI
- The 5-Ingredient Kryptonite Defense: IDEAS, SPEED, TALENT, DISTINCTION, LEADERSHIP AT ALL LEVELS — the integrated system that makes you irreplaceable
- The Napkin Math: Why fragmented excellence doesn’t just underperform — it falls exponentially further behind every quarter
- The Notebook in the Drawer: Why the gap between knowing and deploying is where careers go to die
- Mikey or Chen: The choice every professional faces — and how to be on the right side of it
- Kryptonite Scorecard™ — 30-behavior diagnostic tool included in the book and available digitally at realmikeevans.com/scorecard.