Key-person risk
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In this lesson
find where the organization depends on one person, including you.
Planned topics
- Key-person risk: if one person is away, work, decisions, or knowledge stop.
- Signs: everything routes through you, only you can approve or fix something, no one else knows the history.
- It harms the organization (single point of failure) and you (no time, no growth, no rest).
- Being indispensable is a risk, not a status.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
a risk map: area, person, what stops if absent, how long until trouble, current backup.
Check your understanding
Why is being indispensable a problem?
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It is a single point of failure for the organization and a limit on your own growth.
Practice
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