Are there no irreplaceables?
Olga Nikitina: - I am of the opinion that there are no irreplaceable people. Of course, I value the contribution of each employee to the development of the company, but if circumstances arise such that you have to part with someone, well, such is life, it all consists of losses and gains. After working for some time in the company, a new employee will understand the specifics of our work. And if we suit each other, then over time he will become as “irreplaceable” as his predecessor.
But “fighting” the “irreplaceable” is too strong a word. It is necessary to carry out systematic work, which consists of the following: firstly, the manager himself must always be aware of what is happening in the company (what projects are in development, what is being implemented at the moment, what has already been achieved, etc.). Secondly, try to teach employees to be versatile in their work, so that everyone can replace the other during vacation, illness, or due to workload. And finally, thirdly, regularly hold general team meetings so that everyone knows where the company is heading, what to expect, and how to build further work. Speaking not only as the owner of a business, but also as its manager, of course, I assess my importance in the development of the company. I believe that I am not only the founder of the business, but also its thinking center, a generator of new ideas. In cases when the head of a company changes, the company may perform worse or better (it all depends on the professionalism of the person), and when the owner changes, the company may cease to exist altogether or radically change the direction of its activities. Combining both functions, I not only set a goal that the company must achieve, but also develop specific tools with which it must be achieved.
Vyacheslav Antonov:
For example, the work of a doctor is not mechanized, it simply cannot be so. And I must say that there are very few good doctors. These are irreplaceable people, because if they are replaced, the quality of the service provided will suffer.
Tatyana Shvab:
The main thing is that a person understands his place in the business process. Each employee must know that he is responsible for his area of work. If he fails, the whole process will be slowed down. Transparency of technology is the key to successful work and lack of indispensability. There is a category of people who are trying to build technology in such a way as to become indispensable. But I do not welcome this and never do this, because this, in my opinion, speaks of a lack of self-respect and low self-esteem. Life is so arranged that nothing lasts forever under the sun.
Everything flows, everything changes. Of course, I can be replaced overnight. I can be indispensable only thanks to my charisma, just like any other person.
Sergei Kudrin:
There are employees who silently do their work, and there are those who pretend to be active, while doing their best to extol their merits “to the skies” and present themselves as “irreplaceable.” I don’t like such “irreplaceable” employees; I value highly qualified specialists more. It's easy to distinguish one from the other.
When a person works, what is visible is not him, but his work. He constantly comes up with some projects, proposals, and ready-made developments arrive. I really appreciate such people, since they do not waste my time and theirs, but involve me only when it is really necessary.
And there are people who seem to do something, but the result is zero. But at the same time, they come to me with enviable regularity, ask questions, and consult. In general, they are trying to increase their importance in my eyes. But the work still doesn’t work! I appreciate those who really work, move them forward and offer something myself, but I try to part with others as quickly as possible. I think it will be better this way, both for the company and for the team.
I am a young CEO - I have been in office for less than a year. Since taking office, I had to change a lot in the company. Optimize business processes, identify really good specialists and those who were not interested in work, but only in their own status. As a result, we had to part with many “irreplaceable” employees. After the departure of “irreplaceable” people, I did not try to immediately recruit new staff. The functionality of the former employee was transferred to specialists from related fields, and he saw how they handled it. For some employees, the expansion of their functionality became an opportunity for career and professional growth, while others could not cope and left.
Compared to last year, the staff of Zebra Telecom has been updated by almost 50%. Some positions have been restored and new invited specialists are working in them. In general, I believe that at that time the company’s renewal was necessary and it was successful.
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One day someone dropped a similar phrase, and everyone picked it up. They believed that people could be shuffled like cards, and nothing would change.
The sun will still be blushing, and things will be going smoothly. The sun will definitely roll out and stick to the sky, but questions will definitely arise with the energy of a particular person. After all, no one can repeat anyone. There is a bakery at the end of my house. Tiny, with rustic violets on the windowsills and stacks of old magazines. Croissants with whole apricots are baked in it and cocoa is poured into Czech porcelain. Every time I return from training, I stop by for a buckwheat baguette and talk to the saleswoman. She stands behind the counter in a white starched apron and resembles the “gray-haired and stern old woman” from the fairy tale “The House That Jack Built.” Always sterile, friendly, with powdered hair at the roots.
Are there no irreplaceable people? Are you sure?
We bow to each other in the old-fashioned way and chat about this and that. I share that my husband taught the child to growl, and now she imagines herself to be either a lion cub or a puppy. She talks about her old dog Lola, who sings along to Leps.
A month ago, the woman quit her job and went to live with her son. Her place was taken by a sullen aunt without a hairstyle and “the house that Jack built.” Without a smile, soft energy, casual hospitality.
I still buy bread, but my life has lost the usual morning conversation.
During our student years, we chose a tiny restaurant located in a cellar. It fried cordon bleu, made dumplings, poured draft beer and served the cheapest coffee in the city. They played “Hands Up” and “Tramp Boy”.
Things went sluggishly, monotonously, until a new administrator appeared: a skinny, choleric girl. She started hosting cocktail parties, changed the menu, arranged candles and invited musicians.
Two guitarists theatrically hung their coats on the backs of high chairs and sang “Sunday” and “Secret”. On Fridays, the barista held raffles. On Mondays - tasting of new dishes.
Business picked up sharply, and people started booking tables in advance, until the “administrator” got married and went on maternity leave.
The restaurant immediately deflated, returned to its previous sluggish life, and then closed completely.
“There are no irreplaceable people,” said someone in France. This was repeated by Woodrow Wilson, followed by Stalin, and many of us continue to say this.
Similarly, Pliny the Elder, without checking, wrote that ostriches bury their heads in the sand, while they simply lay their necks on the ground to rest.
Similarly, we argue that soup must be eaten every day, a cactus saves you from harmful radiation, and if a person grinds his teeth, it means he has worms.
In fact, there is nothing useful in boiled vegetables, invisible radiation cannot be absorbed, and you can only replace the battery in a watch, and it is not a fact that it will run as before.
Probably each of us has heard the phrase: “There are no irreplaceable people.” The aphorism is quite common. Some people agree with him, but others may argue about this. Not everyone knows where this expression came from. Who first said it and why did it become so popular? We will try to sort out these and other questions in this article.
Who is the author of the phrase “There are no irreplaceable people”?
In Russia, the authorship of this expression is often attributed to J.V. Stalin. However, in fact, there are no sources that would confirm this fact. The only place where a phrase similar in meaning was heard was his report at the congress of the All-Union Communist Party. In it, he mentions “arrogant nobles” who consider themselves indispensable, and therefore feel their impunity. Stalin called for depriving such people of their positions, despite all their past merits.
In fact, this expression became so widespread after the election campaign of Wilson, who ran for the presidency of the United States in 1912. However, he was not its author either. Wilson borrowed from the French language.
There are no irreplaceable people, but...
In the middle of the last century, the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso uttered a phrase that somewhere in meaning echoes ours. In his performance it sounded like this: “There are no irreplaceables, but there are unique ones.”
This expression is more to the liking of those who do not entirely agree with the statement that there are no irreplaceable people. In the statement of the great artist, there is agreement that people are replaceable, but there are also individuals who forever leave a mark and cannot be forgotten. Of course, the planet will not stop spinning with the passing of even the greatest people. Life will continue, moreover, it will develop, new discoveries will be made. However, the achievements and works of such people will never be forgotten, and the memory of them will be passed on through the centuries.
Who likes to use the phrase “There are no irreplaceable people”
The bosses are very fond of this phrase. If an employee is not satisfied with something, with this phrase the boss can hint that a replacement will be found to take the place of any employee. However, in our time, valuable personnel are worth their weight in gold, so specialists are very much valued. There are real people with enormous experience, knowledge and skills. They are really difficult to replace. Especially in such important areas as medicine, science, politics, etc. It happens that more than a dozen years will pass before a worthy replacement comes to replace a gifted doctor, great scientist or talented leader.
Conclusion
There are no irreplaceable people. This is both true and not entirely true. This is both good and bad at the same time. The truth is that no matter how gifted, talented and great a person is, life on the planet will not stop with his passing. Someone will still pick up the baton and carry it further. And this is good, otherwise the development of humanity would stop at some point. But the other side of the coin is that there are people who still turn out to be indispensable for someone specifically. With their departure, life loses its meaning, and in this case, the phrase “there are no irreplaceable people” only causes bitterness and protest. People may appear in life who will fill some gaps, but they will still take their place, but not the place of the departed.
Thus, this aphorism in a global sense probably makes sense. However, there are different situations in life, and, perhaps, this phrase will not be appropriate in all cases. Although this also depends on the person. There are people who do not have special attachments, and in their case the aphorism is whatever the circumstances in their life are.
Children of the 20th Congress, almost all of us were anti-Stalinists in our youth. And when, in Brezhnev’s times, older men hung portraits of Stalin on the windshields of their trucks and cars, as a call for “order” and a protest against this “stagnation,” I continued to be an anti-Stalinist.
After the 20th Congress, Stalin was buried so deeply by the “communists” that the understanding of “what Stalin is” did not come all at once and will continue to unfold for a long time...
Stalin didn't say this:
“If there is a person, there is a problem. No person - no problem"
“The death of a person is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic”
“We don’t have irreplaceable people”
“There are no prisoners of war in the Red Army, there are only traitors and traitors to the Motherland”
“It doesn’t matter how they vote, it’s important how they count”
There is a person - there is a problem. No person - no problem
This myth is used to point out Stalin's cruelty and disregard for human life. In fact, Stalin never said anything like this. This statement was invented by the writer A. Rybakov and attributed it to Stalin in his book “Children of the Arbat”:
“In one of my articles, which he especially liked, I reproduced Stalin’s famous aphorism: “There is a man, there is a problem. No person - no problem! Anatoly Naumovich glared: where did Stalin say this? In which of your works? Or in a note? Or in what speech? I thought about it. He answered like this: knowing a little about Stalin’s psychology, I assume and am even sure that he never publicly spoke these exact words. And I didn’t write.
He was a great actor in politics and would not allow himself to reveal his essence. He could allow himself such frankness only in a very narrow circle of his “comrades-in-arms,” or rather, lackeys. Where did I read this? Yes, it's kind of vague. Hangs in the air. A lot of where. In memoirs... In journalism. This phrase has become a kind of cliche to denote that era. - So you don’t remember exactly where? - Absolutely not. “So that’s it,” cried Anatoly Naumovich with youthful liveliness, “I came up with it myself!” For the first time in “Children of the Arbat,” Stalin utters this phrase. I composed it and put it in Stalin’s mouth! I wrote this novel 20 years before its publication in 1987. And from there she went for a walk, and no one remembers where she came from.
“The death of a person is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic”
It is alleged that Stalin uttered the phrase: “The death of a person is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.” In fact, Stalin did not say such words. This phrase is a slightly paraphrased quote from Remarque’s novel “The Black Obelisk”: “But, apparently, this always happens: the death of one person is death, and the death of two million is just statistics.”
“We don’t have irreplaceable people”
Stalin did not say anything like that. A phrase from Alexander Korneychuk’s play “Front” (1942). Moreover, Korneychuk, a Ukrainian Soviet playwright and 5-time (!) laureate of the Stalin Prize in the field of art, was also NOT the author of this aphorism. He only translated into Russian the slogan of the French Revolution of 1789-94. The Commissioner of the Convention, Joseph Le Bon, responded with this phrase to a petition for pardon from an aristocrat.
In 1793, Viscount de Ghiselin, arrested for political unreliability, asked to spare his life, since his education and experience could still be useful to the Republic (as he thought). To which the Jacobin commissioner replied: “There are no irreplaceable people in the Republic!” It is interesting that two years after that, in 1795, other revolutionaries sent Commissar Le Bon himself to the guillotine. Well, there are no irreplaceable people!
“There are no prisoners of war in the Red Army, there are only traitors and traitors to the Motherland”
Famous phrase attributed to Stalin. Khavkin in his article “German prisoners of war in the USSR and Soviet prisoners of war in Germany. Formulation of the problem. Sources and Literature” cites this phrase, referring to the Certificate of the Commission for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression. What’s interesting is that there really is such a phrase there, that’s the name of one part of this certificate. No reference is given to where this phrase came from, where, when and to whom Stalin said this.
The most interesting thing is that there are no links in the help at all. Only in the introduction are the names of the archives in which they worked mentioned.” There is a version that this phrase was allegedly uttered by Stalin in a conversation with the representative of the International Red Cross, Count Bernadotte, and is quoted in his memoirs. The phrase in the retellings is formulated as follows: “... there are no Russian prisoners of war - the Russian soldier is fighting to the death.
If he chooses captivity, then he is automatically excluded from the Russian community,” which somewhat changes its meaning, because “Russian community” is a moral category, not a legal one, i.e. “We will despise the prisoners, but you will return the prisoners to us and observe the conventions on prisoners of war.”
“It doesn’t matter how they vote, it’s important how they count”
The author of the famous phrase is Napoleon III. He said it after the next plebiscite in France. Comrade Stalin simply paraphrased them: “In bourgeois countries, it is important not how they vote, but how they count.” First appeared in the memoirs of defector B. Bazhanov (to France, January 1, 1928) Full quote “You know, comrades,” says Stalin, “what I think about this: I think that it doesn’t matter at all who will vote in the party and how; but what is extremely important is who will count the votes and how.” However, it is extremely doubtful that Stalin would say this clearly compromising phrase in public.
US presidential candidate attributed false phrase about America to Stalin
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, during a televised debate, quoted the “words” of Joseph Stalin, which he never actually said.
“Joseph Stalin said that if you want to destroy America, you need to destroy three things - our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality,” Carson said.
Very quickly, viewers and Internet users discovered that the presidential candidate had used false words. After this, hundreds of ironic comments rained down on Carson.
It is curious that the quote given by Ben Carson is well known to the Russian audience - it is cited, but only in reverse translation in relation to Russia, either as part of the so-called “”, or as a statement by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Some even attribute it to Otto von Bismarck.
The incident that happened to B. Carson is not so rare. Thanks to the Internet, the replication of loud statements and aphorisms of famous people who actually did not say anything like that has become widespread.
The leader of the October Revolution, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, wrote about this: “The main problem with quotes on the Internet is that people immediately believe in their authenticity.”
We have no irreplaceables
We have no irreplaceables
A phrase known in socio-political vocabulary since the beginning of the 20th century. At first it became known as the slogan (“There are no irreplaceable people”), under which the future man conducted his election campaign (1912). American President Woodrow Wilson, who borrowed this expression from the French language. Later (1932) this slogan was used by Franklin Delano Roosevelt when fighting with Howard Hoover for the presidency.
In Russia, this expression is known as the phrase of I.V. Stalin, although in this form it is not found anywhere in his speeches or writings. Apparently, party propagandists and journalists simply “creatively developed” (using a ready-made slogan), the following passage from the Report (section III, part 2), which Stalin spoke at the XVII Congress of the CPSU(b) in 1934. Meaning some senior party and Soviet officials, he said: “These arrogant nobles think that they are indispensable and that they can violate the decisions of the governing bodies with impunity. They should be removed from leadership positions without hesitation, regardless of their past merits.”
Quoted: humorously and ironically.
Encyclopedic Dictionary of winged words and expressions. - M.: “Locked-Press”. Vadim Serov. 2003.
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