Your Best People Aren't Leaving for More Money. They're Leaving Because of You.
Every time a high performer leaves, there's a story the organization tells itself. The story usually involves money. A competitor offered more. The market is tight. We can't compete with what they're paying over there.Sometimes that story is true. But more often, far more often than most organizations are willing to admit, it's a convenient fiction. A way to avoid the harder, more uncomfortable truth: that the person didn't leave the organization. They left the manager.The research on this is not ambiguous. Gallup has been studying employee engagement for decades, and their data consistently shows that the manager accounts for at least 70% of the variance in team engagement. People don't leave companies. They leave managers. They leave cultures. They leave environments where they feel invisible, undervalued, or controlled.The money story is easier to tell because it doesn't require anyone to ch...
