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Why are your most talented people secretly polishing their resumes while you celebrate a “record-breaking” quarter?
Let me start where this usually begins, not in a boardroom, but in a meeting room that smells of coffee and forced optimism, where the numbers on the screen look excellent, the quarter is being praised, and yet half the people around the table are mentally checked out, rolling their eyes just enough that only the person next to them notices, because they already know this conversation will change nothing.
I watch the engineers stop pushing back, not because the idea is good, but because the last three objections were acknowledged politely and ignored completely. I watch managers create elaborate task lists, dashboards, and follow-ups that exist only to show movement, not progress.
And I can tell you the exact moment the best people decide to leave it is the moment they realise that speaking honestly costs them energy, reputation, or time, while staying quiet costs them nothing at all. READ MORE |