Brief thought exercise: in reality, does your job need to exist?

Are you doing something that really moves the org forward, or are you there to represent how fast the place is growing?

To start, read this (from PBS), then this (from Slashdot). David Graeber teaches at the London School of Economics -- so broadly, he's vetted -- but he's also a leading thought person in the Occupy Movement -- so theoretically, you could dismiss him as a crackpot. He wrote a piece last summer for a left-leaning British zine entitled "Bullshit Jobs." It …