Jonathan CroninREI Accelerator, Rei Accelerator · Multifamily Real Estate Investor & Coaching Leader

The Real Reason Great Employees Quit

7 Apr 2025

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Short excerpt from a talk by Sheryl Sandberg (YouTube video "The Real Reason Great Employees Quit") arguing that American companies focus on measurable outputs but fail to understand employee value; employees often quit their managers rather than the company. The clip highlights management shortcomings in valuing people and links turnover to direct managers.

The American companies are full of managers who think they know the cost of everything, but in reality, they know the value of nothing. American companies, they know how to measure the cogs, they know how to measure profitability, but they really don't know the value of anything. They don't know how to solve those problems. One thing I learned when employees quit, they don't quit. They don't leave companies. Right. They leave managers. They leave who they're working for, not the company they're working for.