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Making yourself indispensable at work is the worst thing you can do

There are many false good ideas in the office and one of them is that it is in our best interest to make ourselves indispensable. It's true that, on the face of it, this can be appealing. Since nothing can work without you, you have enhanced your status, put yourself in the spotlight, you are taken care of like a jewel, you are the person who will make the collective succeed or fail. So much so that some people even organize their “indispensability” by making sure that no one has the autonomy or even...

How can you avoid becoming a bottleneck in the workplace?

In the world before bottlenecks were machines that could not keep up with the pace of other machines and completely blocked the production process. The result:...

When you can’t solve a problem, you have to change the problem.

There are phrases, quotes, whose meaning is immediately obvious and resonates like the obvious. Others tickle your intellect without at first sight meaning anything particularly interesting...

How to survive the workplace urgency imperative?

It's a good idea to demonstrate a certain “sense of urgency” in one's skills, something sought-after and valued by companies in a world where,...

Eradicate Meeting Delays: 6 Simple Rules for Optimized Productivity

For many people, meetings are a plague, not because they're inherently unhelpful, but because in practice they're often an unproductive waste of time that ends up...