> If your team quits then you've failed as a manager. While it's certainly possible the manager is poor, this isn't necessarily true. I'm 43, and have overseen

> If your team quits then you've failed as a manager. While it's certainly possible the manager is poor, this isn't necessarily true. I'm 43, and have overseen about 10 teams of various sizes in my career - generally 1-3 years each. Sometimes you have good teams, some times you have rockstar teams, and other times you have duds. It's the luck of the draw, and as a manager, sometimes you can hold a lackluster team together with bubble gum and shoe string, but in the end I've found it's far better for everyone to identify and force out the bad if they don't go of their own volition if at all possible (I've been in contractual/political situations where it was not possible - and that happens, and it is painful). When a majority of your team quits, if you can honestly say it wasn't you (perhaps based on prior counter examples), then thank them for making your job easier.