CHAPTER 3
The Scary Stuff
Processing Fear and Negativity
Early in my career I was working in a new management position at a company we’ll call Acceleric, a large logistics company in the Pacific Northwest. Still quite young and inexperienced, I found myself struggling to maintain my composure with my brightest employee, Roger, who had tendered his resignation after accepting a plum job with Expedite, one of Acceleric’s archrivals. “You can’t resign,” I pleaded. “You’re running our largest projects.” Roger lifted his eyes from the floor, shrugged, and said, with noticeable excitement in his voice, “They’re giving me a huge salary increase and a nice signing bonus. Plus, I get to use the new design tools from Oracle!”
I felt crushed. I took it ...
Get Primal Teams now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
