How to Become the Person Your Manager Fights to Keep During the Next Round of Cuts.
Let’s be brutally honest: the corporate world has a new, unspoken practice. It’s not just layoffs. It’s ‘quiet cutting’; restructuring, ambiguous performance reviews, and the slow erosion of your responsibilities until you feel compelled to leave. It’s designed to make you the one who quits, saving them the severance.
If you’ve felt a shift, a new distance from key projects, or a vague sense of unease, your instincts are right. In a recession, managers aren’t just looking at spreadsheets; they’re making a ruthless calculation: “Who is essential to my team’s survival?”
The answer is never the person who just “does their job.” The survivors share two traits: they are undeniably productive (their work directly ties to core business goals) and they are low-drama (they solve problems, don’t create them). They are the human Swiss Army knives every manager clings to.
But how do you become that person before the decision is made?
It starts with a clear audit. You must diagnose the invisible metric that dictates your fate: your Professional Durability Score. This isn’t about working more hours. It’s a precise measurement of your relationship equity and impact visibility.
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For the cost of a single professional development book, you get a strategic shield. This $100 investment answers the only question that matters in a downturn: When they draw the line, which side will you be on?
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