Our executive team keeps talking about promoting from within and developing our people but when it comes to actual decisions we keep hiring externally for senior roles, and I think we're all complicit in this pattern even though it's destroying morale. We say one thing in our leadership meetings and do another thing when we're scared about making the wrong choice.
More people experience this than they realize.
Your team keeps promising to promote from within and then hiring outsiders anyway.
“Where Are You with Engineering?”
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