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The Courage to Stay or to Leave
When is it that I know I have to go someplace else?
When I have to grow—
Or die.
—Diana Chapman Walsh, “Potbound”
Dave Boyer started his engineering career at ITW, a large manufacturing company headquartered in Chicago. As a product designer on the fast track, Dave was in the leadership development program and rose quickly to account management and then to manufacturing manager within a few years. Although he was doing well financially, the stress of the job was taking its toll on his health. He told me, “Physically I wasn’t doing that well. I had ulcerative colitis at the time because I was carrying the stress in my abdomen.”
Then Dave got a call recruiting him to join a much smaller business in Madison, Wisconsin, ...
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