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Why Your Best Employee Is Leaving
We explore the counterintuitive reality that high performers often leave not because of bad management, but because they are too good at it. Using data from a major consulting firm showing retention drops when top talent exceeds their manager's competence ceiling, we discuss the psychological friction of being managed by someone who cannot match your strategic depth. This episode offers specific scripts for navigating upward mobility in stagnant teams and explains why 'managing up' becomes impossible when the gap is structural.
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