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Why American Workers Are Starving for Honest Conversation (And How Leaders Can Feed Them) A few months ago, I sat across from a talented director who had just been blindsided by a performance improvement plan. She was shocked, hurt, and frankly, furious. "How did I not see this coming?" she asked me, her voice shaking. "I had three years of 'meets expectations' reviews. My boss always said I was doing fine. And now, suddenly, I'm on a PIP?" I've heard some version of this sto

Why Your "Perfect Candidate" Doesn't Exist (And Why That's Actually Good News) By Eve Nasby, Principal, Infused I'm going to say something that might make you uncomfortable: you're probably hiring wrong. Not because you're bad at it. Not because you don't care. But because you're chasing something that doesn't exist—the mythical "perfect candidate" who checks every single box on your impossibly long list of requirements. I see it every week. A company reaches out because they

Why Your Best Employees Are Quietly Checking Out (And What You Can Do About It) I had coffee last Tuesday with a CEO who couldn't understand why his "A-team" was disintegrating. On paper, everything looked perfect: competitive salaries, generous PTO, a ping-pong table in the break room. Yet three of his top performers had resigned in the past two months, and the exit interviews revealed nothing useful—just polite platitudes about "pursuing new opportunities." "They seemed hap