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As a lead you have to care about retention as well. People leave jobs when they feel like they are professionally stagnating (or worse, they stay), because for
by jcadam 8y ago
As a lead you have to care about retention as well. People leave jobs when they feel like they are professionally stagnating (or worse, they stay), because for a software career, stagnation is death and everyone knows it. And high turnover will wreck your ability to deliver.
So, you have to strike a balance between getting stuff done and taking care of your people in terms of professional development and growth.
It's ok, most organizations fail at it. The "90% of everything is crap" rule applies to managers as well.