Only you can make this world seem right
Only you can make the darkness bright.
Only you and you alone
can thrill me like you do
and fill my heart with love for only you
Humming that beautiful classic song by the Platters reminds me something about my role at work. While we can truthfully assert "only you" to our partner, the organization does not.
Let me get down on this a bit, please.
It is a humbling experience to discover that others can get along without us. Yeah. Let me ask: which one of us has not harbored the secret thought that when we leave a job to others, it probably won't get done as well as if would if we we were there? Aha! See. But the fact remains that none of us is indispensable. In the end, that job will be accomplished with or with out us. Organizations now can easily cope. Change Management, by the way, is now an institution within organizations for a lot of companies. Not only that, succession planning is a keynote topic among board meetings. Because, there a lot of surplus and untapped talents within and out that can readily replace us.
The next time that we get into the trap of thinking that the job won't be done without us, and we are about to commit another night at the office or sacrifice another weekend away from our family, reconsider. No one is indispensable. We are not indispensable.
On the other hand, if we really believe that we are indispensable, it only shows our lack of planning or our inability to manage priorities. More so, this is also an indicative of our lack of trust on the ability of others or worst our failure to train others to take on those responsibilities.
Think again my friend. In any given job or project, there is always another man who can do it better or even faster than you do.
Let me get down on this a bit, please.
It is a humbling experience to discover that others can get along without us. Yeah. Let me ask: which one of us has not harbored the secret thought that when we leave a job to others, it probably won't get done as well as if would if we we were there? Aha! See. But the fact remains that none of us is indispensable. In the end, that job will be accomplished with or with out us. Organizations now can easily cope. Change Management, by the way, is now an institution within organizations for a lot of companies. Not only that, succession planning is a keynote topic among board meetings. Because, there a lot of surplus and untapped talents within and out that can readily replace us.
The next time that we get into the trap of thinking that the job won't be done without us, and we are about to commit another night at the office or sacrifice another weekend away from our family, reconsider. No one is indispensable. We are not indispensable.
On the other hand, if we really believe that we are indispensable, it only shows our lack of planning or our inability to manage priorities. More so, this is also an indicative of our lack of trust on the ability of others or worst our failure to train others to take on those responsibilities.
Think again my friend. In any given job or project, there is always another man who can do it better or even faster than you do.
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