Futurist Jim Carroll"When your canaries flee, it's a sign your innovation oxygen is dying." - Futurist Jim Carroll
As CEOs rush to get their people back to the office, they are forgetting one key thing: the best ones aren't excited about coming back to widely dysfunctional organizations. And since they have the skills that are needed the most, they'll choose who to work for, where they'll do the work, and the corporate 'culture' they'll choose to subscribe to.
In other words, the CEOs still aren't necessarily in charge.
What's my point? You departed talent knows your future. Are you listening?
When your best people—your canaries—flee, it means your innovation's oxygen is gone, and only the suffocating routine of your failure is left. I've stood on stage in front of countless leadership teams, and I often tell them a stark truth: your company's most profound insights into the future aren't coming from a market research report. They're walking out your door every single day.
I've prepared a pretty detailed PDF that goes into my post below. Read it, share it, ponder it. It's right here.
https://pdf.jimcarroll.com/Your-Departed-Talent-Knows-Your-Future-Are-You-Listening.pdf
I call them "industry expatriates," a phrase I coined in my book Ready, Set, Done! in 2007.
These aren't just employees who found a better salary. These are your passionate visionaries, your rebels, your future-builders. They are the ones who became so fundamentally frustrated with the institutional sclerosis that attack every new idea that they left. They didn't just quit a job; they went out and founded the very companies that will disrupt you tomorrow.
They are your canaries in the coal mine, and the silence you hear after they leave is the sound of your future suffocating.
It's in that context that I believe we are witnessing what I might call "The Great Miscalculation," in which CEOS and companies are forcing a return to a broken culture.
The question you need to ask yourself is this: Who has left your organization in the last two years? Where did they go? More importantly, what are they building now?
Don't just track who is leaving. Track what they do next.
Their new venture is your roadmap to the disruption you failed to embrace. The future of your organization is walking out the door.
The only question is whether you're going to listen to what it's telling you on its way out.
Read the full post for more.
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Futurist Jim Carroll became a nomadic worker in 1989, leaving the stifling innovation-adverse culture of the global professional services firm he had been with for a decade. Since then, he's provided his skills and insight to thousands of globally recognized organizations.
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