The stately-looking gentleman in the impeccable gray suit paused for effect, then said to the table of business leaders, “We need to recognize that only a handful of people in an enterprise actually add value. This is usually the CEO and his or her direct reports. The rest of the workforce is essentially fungible.”
The definition of the word “fungible” is: “being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind”. Hmm. “Freely…replaceable”.
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