Why Your Best People Are Secretly Tired

Your top performers do not complain. That is exactly the problem.

The loyalty tax

The people who care the most carry the most. And because they never ask, you keep asking.

One day, quietly, they stop. Not with a resignation letter — with a slow, invisible exit of the heart.

What great leaders do differently

You do not need a bigger salary budget. You need a smaller list of things you are pretending are urgent.

Ask your best person one question this week: "What is exhausting you that I have not noticed?"

Then sit in the silence long enough to actually hear the answer.