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What stops if one person disappears for 30 days?

The reason does not matter. They quit, take leave, get sick, win the lottery, or simply become unavailable. Test whether critical work still reaches an acceptable result without them.

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Assess the dependency, not the person's title.

These 24 checks cover knowledge, execution, authority, access, customer and revenue continuity, exceptions, recovery, management reporting, and tested continuity.

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Knowledge and execution

Critical work is understandable and operable beyond the primary expert.

Critical recurring steps are visible rather than only remembered by one person.
Another capable person can perform the essential task using current guidance, records, and systems.
Key definitions and judgment criteria are shared enough to produce a consistent result.
The company knows which parts genuinely require unique expertise and which are routine knowledge that should transfer.

Authority and access

Time-sensitive decisions and critical systems have a usable alternate path.

A second authorized path exists for critical system access or recovery.
Delegated authority exists for time-sensitive decisions if the primary decision-maker is unavailable.
Credentials, permissions, recovery codes, or administrative ownership are not trapped with one person.
Critical vendor, bank, domain, platform, or infrastructure ownership can be transferred without the primary person.

Customer and revenue continuity

Commercial context and relationships belong to the company, not only to one employee.

Critical customer history, commitments, risks, and expectations exist in a governed record others can use.
Strategic customer, partner, or vendor relationships have meaningful secondary company coverage.
Pricing, deal, renewal, or commercial exception rules survive the absence of the usual salesperson or executive.
Pipeline, renewal, expansion, or revenue decisions can continue without one person's private context.

Exceptions and recovery

The company can handle abnormal conditions without defaulting to one rescuer.

Common high-consequence exceptions have a known path beyond asking one specific person.
Escalation ownership has an alternate when the normal owner is unavailable.
Another capable person can diagnose or recover a critical failure when the usual expert is unavailable.
The company knows how long recovery can take before the business consequence becomes unacceptable.

Management and reporting

Leadership evidence and operating cadence do not require one interpreter.

Key metrics, definitions, and calculations can be reproduced without one person's private spreadsheet or memory.
Board or leadership reporting does not depend on one person's unwritten interpretation of the numbers.
Recurring management reviews can run and produce decisions without their usual facilitator.
Leadership can see where consequential work currently has a single-person dependency and who owns the response.

Tested continuity

Continuity is practiced or explicitly accepted, not assumed.

The company has identified its highest-consequence single-person dependencies by business outcome, not job title.
At least one alternate has practiced, shadowed, or demonstrated the critical work where continuity is required.
Access, decision, exception, or execution continuity has been tested under an absence scenario.
Unresolved dependencies are explicitly accepted, monitored, or sequenced for repair rather than simply assumed to be fine.