Who is the most important in an organization?

If you are the boss, who do you think that perform the most important task in your organization?

If you think that the one who brings in the most money, sales guy is the most important, then probably the sales guy career in your company will be very short, because not every year in 30 years of his career, every year will be a profit making year. As the organization expands, the cost of course will increase, if one day, the sales profit cannot cover the cost, is he still that important? If 5 years down the road and the company is still making losses, what would you do?

If you think that the one who can give orders is the most important, then what happens if there is no one else for him to give orders too? Nobody will be  doing the job and in the end, even the person giving orders will  be leaving the company. Being able to give orders and being able to mix well with staff, is never a good combination. Sooner or later, the person giving orders will be isolated.

To me, I would think that the person doing those tasks where nobody else want to do, is the most important of all. Because when there is a job too easy, people will just ignore it because it’s not a challenge, when there is a job too tedious, people will just avoid it because it takes a long time to be solved, when there is a job that is ridiculous and totally impossible to do, there is no one else but him.

The bottom of the pyramid, the proletariat.