People can like their jobs and still decide to leave. Sometimes the problem isn’t a lack of motivation, but that their motivation no longer has room to develop.

Corporate culture is shaped less by what organisations say than by what people observe. What gets rewarded, tolerated or sanctioned teaches employees how things really work.

Competition alone doesn’t change how people behave. But when opportunities, resources or security begin to feel scarce, collaboration can turn into self-protection – and colleagues can start to look like competitors.