Harvard Medical School is famous for asking interviewees to open a window that is nailed shut.

If you were on the board of directors of a company and you got results like this, ... you would lean on the managers to fix the problem or get rid of them.

In the 1950s, about a quarter of corporate executives died before they hit 65 so they died in office. There was a notion that you better get out by 65 if you want a retirement. Now, people are living longer and they're also living healthier. People don't have to retire so they say the heck with it. You see these founding CEO-type folks hanging around forever.

There's no labor shortage coming.

The best a company can honestly do is give workers a glimpse of where the company is headed and how they might fit into it.

It shows there is something fundamentally wrong at the organization.