Volume 3 · The Corner Cabin · Essay 290
Valuable Employee Paradox
Here is a thing that should not be true, and is: Valuable Employee Paradox. Sit with it for a moment. It will repay you.
The way out is not to solve it but to carry it. Some loads are meant to be carried, not put down. This paradox is one of them, and the carrying itself builds the muscle.
A joint family runs on unspoken job descriptions. The day someone writes them down, half the quarrels lose their employment.
An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. Tomorrow will provide the test. It always does.