Becoming indispensable- a pandemic power move

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• URL: https://radreads.co/becoming-indispensable/?utm_source=brainpint&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=obvious_to_you_amazing_to_others&utm_term=2020-10-13
• Published Date: 2020-10-13
• Author: [[10k Work]]

Highlights

• The ones that will deliver the most bang for your buck? The $10K equivalent of Becoming indispensable?
• The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen.
• Develop unique skills * Become their Tylenol * Become an information conduit.

Develop unique (yet adjacent) skills

• Learning new skills is a surefire path to becoming indispensable.
• we should look closer to home: adding adjacent skills.
• Adjacent skills are quicker to learn and deliver more bang for the buck
• Adjacent skill play on what you know already and help you make better use of them.

  Turn yourself into Tylenol

• Tylenol products solve a specific problem a customer is looking for a solution for. Vitamin products try to make a customer’s life better in some way when they didn’t even know they had a problem to solve.
• Be your boss’ second brain. Track their tasks, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Organize your team’s information. Knowledge workers spend 4.5 hours a week looking for files. If that’s not Tylenol, I don’t know what is.
• Create dashboards. Your boss is struggling for a centralized place containing the team’s metrics, goals and KPIs. Create this doc in a simple spreadsheet (or more advanced no-code app), and constantly remind them where they can find it.
• summarize the key takeaways in a format that’s friendly for your boss to consume.

  Become a conduit (to unique information)

• not underestimate the influence of shadow power—advisors, assistants, consultants, and most especially spouses.
• generosity-first networking (which BTW is one of the most popular modules from Supercharge your Productivity).
• Having a system * Following-up methodically * Leading with generosity * Connecting the dots

Linking

• MOC 10K$ framework

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