Why Your Best People Stop Telling You the Truth Long Before They Leave

A leader I was working with recently told me they had a communication problem.

People weren’t speaking up.

Change initiatives were meeting resistance.

The same frustrations kept appearing in engagement surveys.

And despit...

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There is something I have noticed both in my own life and in many of the people I work with.

It took me a while to see it clearly because, on the surface, it looks like ambition.

It looks like discipline.

It looks like commitment.

In fact, most people would probably describe it as success.

But ...