Three Week Rule: you should be able to go away for three weeks, without your laptop, and nothing tactical should be held up as result.

In high-performance environments, I have found job descriptions to be a total waste of energy. While the two-to-three page documents can be great box ticking tools for staff riddled with imposter syndrome, they do not get to the core of the role or the person you want in it. The internet is full of job descriptions. Millions. If you want one, go download one. That’s a good measure of how specific and insightful they are.

Every time I bring heatmaps up with executives and their teams, I get one of those pupil-dilating moments. We’ve all seen them. We’ve all used them. But we very quickly forget about them.

Career development is a core component of every executive manager’s job – both your own and the careers of those that you guide and grow. We know that we aren’t spending a lifetime with a particular company. We are here to do a job – a good job. And when that job is done, we will move onto the next job. That’s how the system works.

So, why is leaving a job still so hard to talk about?