The Trap of Promoting Your Best Individual Contributor

Promoting your top performer often breaks both the employee and the team. This episode dissects why technical excellence does not translate to management success, using real-world data on turnover rates in high-performing teams. We explore the 'player-coach' compromise, how to identify potential leaders before they hit the wall, and what to do when a star player simply doesn't want to manage. Lucas and Luna break down the structural incentives that make this mistake so common, and offer a concrete framework for having the difficult conversation about career paths without losing your best talent.

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