THE TRAGEDY OF COMPETENCE
If you disappeared tomorrow, would your organisation miss only your reliability — or would it miss your judgment?
One of the most demoralizing experiences in corporate life is to be heavily used by the system without being strategically elevated. To carry a disproportionate share of the daily burden, only to watch the future move through other people.
Most career books are written for professionals trying to succeed in a new role.
This book is not.
It is written for professionals who have done almost everything right — and still find their careers stagnating.
The Relevance Trap exposes the hidden structural forces that quietly narrow a professional’s trajectory. Drawing on more than three decades of observation within global organisations, Venkatachalam Viswanathan examines what the Relevance Trap is, why capable professionals fall into it, and what they can do about it.

The Relevance Trap is an excellent read. Every professional will be able to connect with the wisdom it shares quickly.
— N. Chandrasekaran
Professor, IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University