Mike Andes addresses the situation when an employee unexpectedly walks off the job, describing the intense emotional toll (doubt about growth, morality, and finding good people) and advising leaders to move on, maintain perspective, and let their resilience—not the employee's departure—determine their business's future.
What do you do when an employee walks up the job? Honestly, you get over it. You just have to. It's not easy. It's extremely emotionally taxing. You start to doubt whether you should grow. You start to doubt morality. You start to doubt whether or not there's good people in the world. You doubt whether or not you can find good employees. And it's very tough to bounce back from that. But you have to. You absolutely must just realize that, hey, I've got to move on from this. My business's destination future is not going to be determined because someone walked off a job. It's going to be determined whether or not I, as a leader and able to overcome that throughout my business's journey.
