of a takeover or acquisition (a remarkable number of redundancies are this), protest at the home of the taking over company boss - 60% of all announced takeovers fall through. You can help the process on the way... 6. Control information recording in the office. There is always a handful of people in the office who know where everything is filed, and consequently know the status of projects. This is power, and reduces your chance of making the list. The "run to" person is never sacked. 7. Ensure that your colleagues' failings are covertly exposed to your boss. Book team meetings you know they can't make, tell them their boss is out of the office and let them come in late, when he isn't, ensure that every sloppy piece of work they do comes to your bosses attention. You need to get out of the mentality advocated by the Guardian above, that keeping your job is about being good and skilled and indispensible. It isn't. It is about ensuring that your colleagues are perceived as more incompetent than you, and that therefore, cometh the revolution, they are the first for the guillotine. Most popular on the Guardian Today in pictures After advising tourists against travel to the cities of Jammu and Srinagar for nearly 20 years, the Foreign Office has lifted its guidelines after a fall in violence. So, Dal Lake and part of the Valley of Kashmir, one of India's most beautiful regions, are once again open to visitors