Hi Reader! Daria’s here. What’s one of the few metrics everyone agrees on? The CEO watches it. The CFO watches it. HR watches it. Turnover. It's important because it tells you something is wrong. Unfortunately, it doesn’t tell you what exactly is broken. So we do the usual fixes: hire faster, pay more, improve onboarding, run another leadership program. Sometimes one of them helps. But what if it doesn’t? Value Pathing In the latest Built by People Leaders episode, I talk with Clark Ingram, a...

Hi Reader! Daria’s here. Have you ever noticed that we’re all doing too much and still not feeling caught up. The pace of change is high, the pace of work is higher, and AI pushed it up another level. Now that we know we can produce so much more, it’s as if we feel guilty when we don’t. So we push ourselves, we push our teams, we push our organizations — without stopping to ask: Are we moving in the right direction? Are we creating value? What’s the ROI? Does any of this make sense? I...

Hi Reader! Daria’s here. For most of my career, I pushed through. Whatever it cost. Merging 500 people in an M&A that closed in a few months. A full restructure. A major telecom rebrand. I got it done. Every time. And then I’d get sick. It took me years to realize that most things don’t fail during a crisis. They fail after it. We brace for the disruption, push through it, then treat the recovery as automatic. It isn’t. Decision quality drifts. Alignment loosens. And because the emergency is...