He Thinks It Reads as a Strong Team. It Doesn’t.
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Here’s what the Hoarder never saw: how it read from above. She thought her retention record was the proof of her leadership — nobody leaves my team. The people deciding her next role read the same record and saw something else: nobody grows on her team.
In 6 years she had never sent anyone up. Never staffed another org’s critical project. Never had a former report running something. So when a bigger role opened, the question in the room wasn’t “can she deliver?” — she always delivered.
It was “can she build leaders?” And there was no evidence. Not because the evidence was mixed — because she’d prevented it from existing. Your people’s trajectory is your resume.
If they never leave, the resume is blank.
Tomorrow: the Hoarder from another angle.
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