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When I do something, paid or volunteer, I want to do it well.
And when I do that, people become dependent on me. Especially if I’m playing a unique role.
I become a single point of failure for the organization. Which means that if something happens to me, things will fall apart. So it can be a trap.
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We saw this with the pandemic, with local fires and floods, and with the recent Crowdstrike failure. Every organization has exposure to things outside their control. The image of “fragility” seems appropriate to me.
Some people are super-organized and like to put plans in place for every contingency. Great, I suppose, but the Return on Investment can be very low. Most of us don’t have the time (or willpower!) to plan for unlikely things.
So what’s the right balance?
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The Values-Based Business 