Critical work is moving. Knowledge isn't.
“The same person repeatedly picks up the P1s, launch blockers, urgent fixes and other business-critical work.”
The objective is not to make everyone interchangeable. It is to make sure the business is not dependent on one person to keep its most critical work moving.
We have been talking about key person dependency for years, yet I still keep seeing the same pattern: the same person repeatedly picks up the P1s, launch blockers, urgent fixes and other business-critical work.
AI can help surface the pattern early and before years of critical knowledge accumulate around one person and before a rushed handover becomes the only option.
The actual remedy is still organisational:
Linda Stupena Advisory
From second opinion to hands-on leadership.
This pattern shows up long before a resignation letter does. If one person has quietly become the only reliable route through anything critical, an outside review can map it while there's still time to fix it without a crisis.
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