Marc Haine argues that people quit their bosses, not their jobs. He pushes back on managers who blame staff for leaving, generational stereotypes, and labor shortage narratives, calling instead for leaders to practice humility and examine their own behavior.
One of the things that I constantly see as a consultant walking into a business and I talk to managers and business owners and they're constantly pointing their fingers at their staff. They don't do what I tell them. I've told them a million times and they still don't do it. It's my staff is, oh, my staff sucks. They'll even blame the generations, right? These kids today, they are so lazy. Nobody wants to work. And they'll even blame the economy and the environment. You know, there's a labor shortage. There's not enough people to do the work. That's why we're so short-staffed. Now, I'm not saying that none of it is true, but there is something to be said for the adage that people don't quit their jobs, they quit their bosses. Of course, the key challenge with that is that it takes humility to be self-reflective. It takes the humility to say that maybe there is something wrong with me and I'm willing to take a look at it.
