Callum Borchers
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1,301 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2022
last heard Jan 2025
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And some of them now are really fretting the advent of artificial intelligence that could replace some of their more mundane tasks.
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And so I hear from folks like this constantly worried about what does AI mean for my own job security?
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It absolutely is.
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What some managers told me that is sort of a pitch to workers to say, hey, be a little bit more generous, be a team player, share your knowledge.
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Don't think that you're going to make yourself indispensable by being the only one who can do a certain task is this.
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Yes, this is also about me as a manager planning for your eventual possible departure.
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But on the more positive side, think about your promotion potential.
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If nobody else can step in to do your old job, how can I promote you?
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How can I elevate you into a higher level job?
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If you want to think about it from the employee's shoes, what these managers have said is, if you're gunning for that promotion, actually try to train up the people underneath you so that you are replaceable.
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It sounds counterintuitive, like make yourself replaceable.
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But the pitch is, you'll be able to advance into bigger roles when the company feels comfortable that another person could come up and replace your current job.
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When employees try to be...
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It's definitely a risk on both sides.
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For managers, they do need to be careful about eroding employee morale to the point where people feel like, hey, my manager isn't looking out for my career advancement.
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They're trying to put a limit on my importance.
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I think that is absolutely the risk.
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And that's what makes this such a delicate balance for managers.
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On the employee side, a cautionary tale is a guy named Jim Moenig I spoke with who told me that he had been...
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advised over the years in his job at a software company that he should really try to expand his skill set just in case something ever happened.
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