"Improve your ability and make yourself irreplaceable!"
Not everyone at work has heard of this chicken soup, but you don't even have to ask your colleagues if they have heard of it, and you will be convinced that it has been widely circulated.
Like many poisoned chicken soup, the first half of this sentence is very positive and has universal value. To improve one's ability, that is, to improve oneself and optimize oneself, everyone hopes to make a little progress than yesterday, which is not wrong.
The second half of the sentence, "Make yourself irreplaceable", sounds very exciting-everyone wants to get ahead and excel, which reminds people of their own "stand out from the crowd" and "other mountains are dwarfed under the sky." Just in line with people's expectations for their future. It is best to enjoy the noble loneliness of "it is too cold at the top".
Not to mention the difficulty of achieving "irreplaceable" status, when you feel irreplaceable, or the boss thinks you are irreplaceable, you actually become an unstable factor in the company-the boss is unlikely to allow irreplaceable employees in a certain position. After all, once such employees leave, the company will fall into a very passive situation, and the boss will lose the initiative to the employees. This kind of risk cannot be left unchecked.
And in the workplace, even the boss can be replaced, and employees should not have the idea of making themselves irreplaceable.
It is right to improve yourself. The goal of improving yourself is to make yourself irreplaceable. Wrong.
Improve yourself. In the workplace, you are more valuable than when you come to the company for an interview. In other words, you are more cost-effective in the eyes of the boss. But to say that this is irreplaceable is a bit too much. It's like saying that a part of a machine has good performance, but you can't say that nothing can replace it except this part. From your own point of view, your efforts make you an excellent "part" and you have the right to choose a better machine. Of course, in the workplace, there are many factors that affect our choice (such as market demand), but it is always our initiative to improve ourselves. In other words, the tide of development pushes us forward, and if we don't move forward, we may be eliminated. On the one hand, we follow the trend, on the other hand, we walk in front of the trend and strive to be the leader of the times.
I think this sentence needs to be changed slightly, which may be more practical:
"Improve yourself and make yourself excellent."
This change has lost the momentum of the original words, but it is more real.