Layoffs and customer losses are two events that typically garner the same response from the recently departed. Laid off workers think, “I was doing such a good job. They love me. They just told me that in my last review.” Fired suppliers say, “But we’re doing such a good job. You love us. You just said so at lunch three weeks ago.”
If you don’t want to become a creamer flipping specialist then don’t work for a boss that’s one. End of discussion. No?
If the idea is that all individuals can be placed along a spectrum of innovation, somewhere between creamer flippers and megadisruptors, where does the average internet blogger fall?