All Too Often We Say Of A Man Doing A Good Job That He Is Indispensable. A Flattering Canard, As So Many Disillusioned And Retired And Fired Have Discovered When The World Seems To Keep On Turning Without Them. In Business, A Man Can Come Nearest To Indispensability By Being Dispensable In His Current Job. How Can A Man Move Up To New Responsibilities If He Is The Only One Able To Handle His Present Tasks? It Matters Not How Small Or Large The Job You Now Have, If You Have Trained No One To Do It As Well, You're Not Available; You've Made Your Promotion Difficult If Not Impossible.

-Malcolm Forbes

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All Too Often We Say Of A

Malcolm Forbes

All Too Often We Say Of A Man Doing A Good Job That He Is Indispensable. A Flattering Canard, As So Many Disillusioned And Retired And Fired Have Discovered When The World Seems To Keep On Turning Without Them. In Business, A Man Can Come Nearest To Indispensability By Being Dispensable In His Current Job. How Can A Man Move Up To New Responsibilities If He Is The Only One Able To Handle His Present Tasks? It Matters Not How Small Or Large The Job You Now Have, If You Have Trained No One To Do It As Well, You're Not Available; You've Made Your Promotion Difficult If Not Impossible.

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Several Weeks Of Summer Vacation In The Thirties I Spent Working At $15 A Week In The Forbes Office.... I Worked In The Mail Cage, Where Envelopes Were Slit And Subscription Payments Extracted. Dad Used To Come Pounding Down The Office Aisle And Pause Long Enough To Ask, How Much Today? Inevitably The Answer Was Inadequate-except Once. That Day The Controller Said Excitedly, Mr. Forbes, The Ledger Shows A Slight Profit This Month! ... My Father Turned To Him And Said, Young Man, I Don't Give A Damn What Your Books Show. Do We Have Any Money In The Bank?

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