HID

My mentor always taught me to be dispensable; but it doesn’t mean that I’m not contributive or efficient. It means that I will help in building a system so effective and solid that it will also be able to successfully run independently without me. That’s what successful businessmen do. Look at Bill Gates – Microsoft is still number 1 in the computing industry after he left (although it’s only been a year, haha).

The idea is to keep bringing people in to take ownership. To train and develop new talent. Very much like Arsène Wenger

‘s Arsenal. Not even a record breaker like Theirry Henry was untouchable in his team. It was always about the system and philosophy. Everyone can become part of it if you’re good enough. So learn to build something that can exist without you, create something that is bigger than an individual’s purpose – I’m talking about a Kingdom. It’ll make your life easier and your work more fun. It’ll free up more time for you to be more productive in coming up with the next “you-dispensable” structure.

Then many will ask, what is it in store for me if I work that way? If there’s no leverage for me, then I have no bargaining chip! So this is where the other part comes in. You have to learn to become influential. Influential doesn’t mean you have to have a lot of official political power. Being influential means that people respect your opinions and seriously take into consideration your suggestions. Influence, like respect is earned. And everyone can tell your character apart like spotting a stain on your white shirt.

But the most important ingredient for both “Influential” and “Dispenable” to work is “Humility”. Without it, you become a purposeless invertebrate. Without it, you are nothing more than a power-hungry dictator. Without humility you only destroy others. But with humility that comes from knowing Christ, you can change lives, even if it’s one at a time.