Valuing You (Accurately and Completely)
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The talk argues that organizations and people overvalue maker output and undercount other concrete contributions such as meetings, advocacy, maintenance and crisis readiness which survive interruptions from meetings life events or illness. It names alternative roles: keeping the lights on person, book on the shelf, and in case of emergency brake glass, and claims those roles provide measurable organizational resilience and justify pay and inclusion even when product output temporarily falls.
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