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nobody, and I mean nobody, is irreplaceable. anyone that thinks they are should see what actually happens in the hours and days after 'irreplaceable' people lea
by ejb999 6y ago
nobody, and I mean nobody, is irreplaceable. anyone that thinks they are should see what actually happens in the hours and days after 'irreplaceable' people leave...somehow organizations manage to move forward. and within a week or two they are forgotten (with the possible exception of tiny teams).
- rurban 6y agoYou have apparently no idea how certain fields work. There are a lot of cases where a person stopped working on something, and then followed a 20 year complete stop of progress. Exceptional people are not replaceable. Putting a team in charge will just increase the damage.
- lukevp 6y agoI don’t think this is true, but I also don’t think most of us are irreplaceable. For example, Jim Keller seems to make or break chip design projects.
- whatshisface 6y agoYou're thinking of people who think they are irreplaceable due to general intelligence. People who are unique due to knowledge of specific systems are much less easy to swap out. Money can buy general intelligence but specific domain/application knowledge is sometimes unavailable at any price.
- neatze 6y ago"specific domain/application knowledge", in addition to, passion with deep understanding of project plans (vision) and objectives.
- bo1024 6y agoI am reminded of the guy who noticed a nest of termites in one of his house's support beams and said, unworried, "No beam is irreplaceable."