Firm Value and Independence
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I Thought Being Indispensable Was Job Security (Turns Out I Was Just the Bottleneck)
I read an article last week that made me laugh and cringe at the same time. An entrepreneur wrote about his top engineer. He’d swooped in to fix a systems failure. Thought he was being helpful. Saving the day. She looked at him and said: “You know I could have figured that out, right?” She…
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I Used to Think Every Problem Was Mine to Solve (Spoiler: They Weren’t)
I had a problem. Actually, I had about 47 problems. But they weren’t MY problems. They were everyone else’s problems that I’d decided were mine. The Problem-Solving Addict I was really good at spotting problems. Like, REALLY good. I could walk into a meeting and within 30 seconds identify:• What wasn’t working• Why it wasn’t…