Mobility

First and foremost is the ability to change. You cannot change your backbone but you can change your method of defending it. In the office you can’t exactly duck and run from your active duties (though many do and make a career out of it), so mobility is applied to how you deal with the currency of the office – knowledge. Be malleable about the points of view, methods and tactics that you will have to use in the future. Do not discredit anything outright. Do not have complete faith in the ways of the past. Do not expect and respect too much. Give yourself latitude, a free space to manoeuvre, should the need arise.

Mobility also extends to awakening those around you to a threat. Mobility is also about motivating people to work for, or with you, against a threat that may affect all of you even though many do not care for you. In the final analysis, mobility is motivation.

Mobility is also a contradiction – you are a slippery pole that none can climb, yet simultaneously a rock for people to rely on. You need to be both at the same time and use the one senile customer-service smile. You have to be fixed somewhere, otherwise all the moving and flexing creates the impression that you are fixed to nothing but a lot of hot air. So now you need to determine what you should be fixed on, and what you should be fluid about. Sounds hard and ridiculous? Well, nearly. To get around it all, be what people want you to be, based on what they need, what they think is of value, and what is not.