She Was Ready Two Years Ago. Everyone Knew.
Her best analyst got an outside offer — real role, real raise. He brought it to her, which tells you what kind of relationship they had. She told him the internal path was better. He believed her, turned it down, and the internal path never materialized — not because she lied, but because she was never in the rooms where his name would have needed saying, and she wasn’t going to put him in one.
He stayed 2 more years. When he finally left, he didn’t give notice conversations to her first. That’s the cost that never shows on a retention report: the trust spent to keep someone becomes the reason they leave badly. Retention that serves the leader isn’t loyalty.
It’s a loan against the relationship — and the interest compounds. Full video in comments.
Tomorrow: the Hoarder from another angle.
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