Chapter EightDon't Let Them Jump Ship
Your best players will find a new team first.
A career today represents more of a collection of assignments than a collection of seniority pins and gold watches. Work, especially at managerial levels, is increasingly an activity more than a place. Along with the extinction of twenty-to-thirty-year stints at patriarchal corporations has come a reciprocal erosion of employees' loyalty toward their employers. One result of this development is the greater difficulty of retaining key top performers. Often during a merger or acquisition, even when key personnel stay on board, they lose their commitment, especially when the environment becomes unstable or uncertain or changes dramatically, as is inevitably the ...
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