Telling someone to “replicate yourself” isn’t something rude.

Apparently the US Air Force use the term use to encourage the sharing and spreading of knowledge so it doesn’t just stay with one person.

I’ve also used similar ideas to avoid getting stuck. If you’re the only person who knows how to do something, you risk getting stuck doing that and can’t move onto other new and exciting things.

What are the lessons?

  • How do we ensure no one person is a single point of failure?
  • How do we ensure there isn’t knowledge that only exists in one person’s head?
  • How to do this without turing people into a commodity?