Talent Hoarding
The manager who never lets good people move is the manager who makes good people leave.
A manager has a brilliant engineer. The engineer asks to transfer to a team that would stretch their skills. The manager blocks the move. “We cannot afford to lose you right now.”
Six months later, the engineer leaves the company entirely.
McKinsey’s 2022 Great Attrition research: one of the top three reasons people quit is lack of career development. Not compensation. Not workload. The feeling of being stuck. The person most likely to create that feeling is the direct manager who holds talent hostage.
The paradox is clean: the tighter you grip, the faster they slip.
SOURCE Capability