Emma Lawson sat in her office reviewing the latest engagement survey results with a knot in her stomach that wouldn’t go away. On paper, her company looked strong. Twenty years of steady growth. Healthy margins. Loyal customers. Operations running smoothly. The kind of success most business owners dream about. But the survey told a different story. One that kept Emma up at night. Her top performers, the ones who’d been

Vanessa Elliott stood outside the boardroom, gathering herself before what would be the most difficult meeting of her career. Inside waited her board of directors, armed with data she couldn’t dispute and recommendations she didn’t want to hear. ServiceCo, her once-thriving IT services company, was in late decline. And everyone knew it except, perhaps, Vanessa herself. The numbers were brutal. Revenue had dropped for six consecutive quarters. Key accounts were

Elena Mendoza sat in her corner office reviewing VistaTech’s latest quarterly results. Ten years of steady, profitable growth. Industry-leading renewable energy solutions. Impressive retention rates. By every conventional measure, her company was crushing it. So why did she feel uneasy? The numbers told one story. But the hallways told another. The energy that once crackled through VistaTech like the late-night debates over breakthrough ideas, the bold proposals that pushed boundaries,