{"id":149,"date":"2019-07-20T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/?p=149"},"modified":"2019-07-20T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:16:07","slug":"the-high-cost-of-poor-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/2019\/07\/20\/the-high-cost-of-poor-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"The High Cost of Poor Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">On the plane to Germany I listened to an audiobook called <i>People Follow You<\/i> by Jeb Blount. In this book, Blount discusses leadership and the importance of manager-employee relationships.\u00a0 Companies spend so much money on benefits and compensation plans to increase their retention rate.\u00a0 Blount states that retention rate and employee is directly related to first line management.\u00a0 What really grabbed my attention was when Blount made the statement that bad bosses are never forgotten.\u00a0 His quote \u201cpeople don\u2019t leave companies, they leave managers\u201d is applicable to my work career.\u00a0 I left two positions because of poor management.\u00a0 A low retention rate is a high cost to the company and can be directly related to poor leadership.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the plane to Germany I listened to an audiobook called People Follow You by Jeb Blount. In this book, Blount discusses leadership and the importance of manager-employee relationships.\u00a0 Companies spend so much money on benefits and compensation plans to increase their retention rate.\u00a0 Blount states that retention rate and employee is directly related to<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore-p\"><a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/2019\/07\/20\/the-high-cost-of-poor-leadership\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23797],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}