If you want to get ahead at work, make yourself irreplaceable. That means coming to work every day, doing more than what’s asked, being open and flexible to changing times and circumstances, picking up around you, helping others, and looking for creative ways to make work better. Most companies get obsessed with job postings and complicated job descriptions that they create a mentality of “do what you’re told” and inadvertently drive any creativity and extra initiative out of the work equation. We need to be better at clearly explaining expectations, paying closer attention to people’s performance, providing coaching when needed and catching them when they do things right: that creates an environment where people are free to be themselves, do more, and increase their value to the company and its customers. In other words, they’re the kinds of employees we want to have around… doing what’s needed, being different, and becoming irreplaceable. That’s the best way I know to build a team of top performers that you’ll want to retain today.
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (1883 – 1971): French fashion designer, businesswoman, and founder and namesake of the Chanel brand
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