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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...

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...

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:...

People Centric Operations: adapting work and operations to knowledge workers 

It's hard to believe that in 2024, in most businesses, work and operations will still be organized as they were in the heyday of Taylorism,...

50 years ago, the Marseille speech. And since then? Not much.

For years, this quote from Antoine Riboud, the former head of Danone, has stood on the front of this blog. "The most successful businesses are...

Is empowerment key to employee experience ?

From my point of view, most of the employee's experience takes place during  work. I mean when the person is operational, performs tasks, does...

The Future of work by Jacob Morgan : digitizing Drucker

Digital transformation is not a customer-facing program only. As a matter of fact, organizations will have to reinvent themselves internally too for the same...

Participative innovation leads to intrapreneurship at Credit Agricole

A couple of weeks ago I came across a very interesting white paper on intrapreneurship issued by french bank Credit Agricole. I did not...

Disconnecting during vacation is good

That's a matter that comes back endlessly : disconnection. I'm not - or not only - talking of disconnecting from social media, which is...

Holacracy at Zappos : no boss or hierarchy. Really

It was the big announcement of the end of 2013 in terms of management innovation. Zappos announced they were going to adopt a management...
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