What remains when you leave?
You step out for ten minutes. A problem appears. When you come back, everyone is waiting.
Have you made yourself useful, or have you become the condition for everything to keep moving?
Some work should wait for you. Some should not. The distinction matters more than a promise to make yourself unnecessary.
Can people recognise a familiar problem, make the decisions that belong to them, and help one another? What knowledge still exists only in your head?
Your absence offers a small view of what the group can carry forward. It is a question to examine, not a verdict on your worth.
What continues without you tells you something about what you have built.
TRY THIS 01 SMALL EXPERIMENT
After your next absence, ask, “What could you move forward, and where did you have to wait?” Choose one repeated point of waiting to clarify together.
Today, or the next time it happens.A question from Jana’s collection