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"I HAVE NO BENCH. IF ANYONE QUITS I'M SCREWED."
Answer: You're running too lean. No redundancy. Every car has five tires but only four on the ground. The spare exists for a reason.
You need redundancy.
Running lean isn't efficient. It's fragile. One person leaves and everything collapses.
You built this structure by optimizing for cost instead of resilience.
Question: What's your single point of failure right now?
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Why: Every car has five tires. The spare exists for a reason. You need redundancy. Running lean isn't efficient. It's fragile.
Here's what happens: someone key quits. You scramble. Projects stop. Clients freak out. You're hiring urgently. Training frantically.
Meanwhile, the company's bleeding. All because you didn't have a backup. You thought having backups was wasteful. It's not. It's insurance. You pay a little more now to avoid catastrophe later.
But you optimized for efficiency.
You cut every dollar of redundancy. Now you're one resignation away from crisis. That's not efficient. That's fragile. And fragility is expensive. The cost of scrambling when someone quits is way higher than the cost of having a trained backup.
But you didn't plan ahead. Now you're paying the scramble cost.
Action: Map your team by role this week. Identify every single point of failure: where losing one person breaks everything.
For each one, add a backup.
Train someone else to cover. Hire a contractor on retainer. Build a bench. It costs more now, but it's cheaper than the chaos of scrambling when someone walks. Efficiency is building a machine that doesn't break when one part fails. Fragility is what you have now.
Wrapping This Up
No single points of failure, make the change in your plans.
Leadership is fixing the problems you made,
— Andy
P.S. You thought having backups was wasteful. It's not.
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