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I've made myself replaceable in every role

I've made myself replaceable in every role

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It’s strategy.

By sharing my thinking, approaches, and daily work openly, I create space to take on new challenges while ensuring the organization doesn’t become dependent on me as a bottleneck.

Thanks to this approach, other teams have taken over many tasks that only the UX team was doing:

  • Explaining the difference between UI, UX, and user researchers.
  • Quarterly design efforts prioritization
  • Forming project descriptions based on our design briefs
  • Making detailed project plans with dependencies in JIRA

These used to be major parts of my daily work. Now they’re winding down.

This keeps me growing while the organization scales.

Some leaders hoard knowledge to protect their position. I share it to create my next opportunity.

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Esko Lehtme
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Esko Lehtme
Design executive and coach. I write about design leadership, UX careers, and self-development.
Shadowing - This article is part of a series.
Part 2: This Article

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