Recently I had to deal with a very difficult issue. When someone decides to leave the company, it’s one thing, but when it’s actually your team, someone whom you invest in regularly, it’s a lot more personal than that. There are people whom if they leave, you’re indifferent and those that if they leave, you feel loss, [...]
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Letting Go is very hard
Recently I had to deal with a very difficult issue. When someone decides to leave the company, it’s one thing, but when it’s actually your team, someone whom you invest in regularly, it’s a lot more personal than that. There are people whom if they leave, you’re indifferent and those that if they leave, you feel loss, [...]
Stopping Attrition
I got an email yesterday asking me if I could share my thoughts regarding what is the anti-pattern for the Attrition Implosion I wrote about.
Let’s say you’ve read the posting, and walked around thinking about it all day. You’ve realized that you have a sales problem, that people look at each other nervously when someone see [...]
Attrition and Implosion
I’m seeing this happen, once again, at another company that I am privy to some of the inner workings of. Management has been squeezing and squeezing people (more on what that means in a minute) and people were staying. But along comes a change of season, new colours and fresh air, and the minds of the oppressed turn to getting out of Do [...]