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He Was One of the Good Ones...

When good people either leave or are asked to leave the company, one of the things you'll commonly hear is, 
"Well... he (or she) was one of the good ones..."
It's like people just heard that a colleague didn't pull through after an accident or didn't survive a war. 

When you start to hear the quote more often than not, you begin to wonder what's really going on. 

Good people join and leave companies all of the time and you would hope that they leave to move on to bigger and better things. 

But maybe that's not really the case. 

If all an organization does is churn and burn out good people, you have to wonder if it's the people or if it's the culture of the organization. 

If it's the culture, you're eventually going to run out of good people, right?  

When you start hearing people talking of employee departures like the opening to a memorial service, take a hard look at the culture of the organization. 

For the ones that fit, it will mean nothing. You and Jim Jones will live a great life together. 

For the ones where it doesn't make sense, start asking why. Then, depending on the answers you get, decide whether it's Kool-Aid that you want to drink. 
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