Without a common language or job architecture, titles can become little more than patches or status markers rather than meaningful indicators of organizational value. After diving deep into ChatGPT, I made a startling discovery: market pricing a job is remarkably similar to writing an effective prompt.

I received a Coach bag recently. Not the leather one. A paper one. But make no mistake: it was a genuine Coach bag. My daughter bought herself a Coach tote, and it came home in a large brown Coach shopping bag with rope handles. The paper bag carried the leather bag from the store to the car, from the car into the house, and then sat around long enough to be used for other things. Both bags are genuine Coach bags. Both served a purpose. But no reasonable person would evaluate