6 Reasons Why Your Best Employees Will Leave

When it's not about money, your star employees are probably jumping ship for one of these reasons.
By Jeff Haden | Dec 15, 2011

You start a business and you hire a key employee. She’s awesome. You hire another key employee. He’s awesome. Together the three of you create an unstoppable team.

Until one of them leaves. Sometimes great employees leave because you can’t afford to pay them more and they can earn more somewhere else. Unfortunately, that happens.  Often, though, great employees leave because your company has changed—and they don’t want to change with it.

Here are six of the top (non salary) reasons your best employees will leave:

1. The business grew—and so did your ego.
2. A cool startup became a corporation.
3. The sky is no longer the limit.
4. Exceptional skill forged handcuffs.
5. Flat is now layered.
6. The NFL is now a little league.

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