> "If the frequency of closed door meetings goes up, and often the managers will disappear for hours on end" I've seen this happen. In a small to medium sized

> "If the frequency of closed door meetings goes up, and often the managers will disappear for hours on end" I've seen this happen. In a small to medium sized company, when key people start leaving, the company is failing. "Key people" means not just execs, but anyone close enough to the execs to know ahead of time what is wrong. A lot of times, it's a funding issue.