No employee is truly irreplaceable, even legendary ones. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were replaced at Microsoft and Apple, and both companies actually performed better afterward. The speaker argues that calling toxic people irreplaceable is a misnomer that lets organizations avoid necessary change.
If the person has a toxic personality, is poisoning people, I refer to them in the book as irreplaceable. But nobody is actually irreplaceable, right? There's some people that come close historically, but even like when Bill Gates left Microsoft or Steve Jobs left Apple, historically those sound like as close to irreplaceable employees as you're ever going to get, right? But they were replaced and the companies actually performed better after they left.
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