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Job counter offers are lame attempts to correct past omissions and are almost never successful.

Either people don’t take them or they do take them and end up leaving relatively quickly thereafter.

Along the way, they throw the rest of the organization off balance.

Of course, they work every-so-once-in-a-while.

But the odds of success are so small that you’re better off skipping the whole thing and devoting your time and attention to preventing the need for them in the first place.

Relooking At Why You Should Never Make Or Take Job Counter Offers Job counter offers are lame attempts to correct past omissions and are almost never successful over time.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: It is better to focus on building winners than on trying to win because that approach is better for the individuals and for the team and it delivers better results over time.

No baseball player bats 1.000.

No salesman closes every sale.

No forecaster gets it right every time.

The best coaches know that if they inspire and enable others to do their absolute best together, they will win far more than they lose over time and will be winners whether they win or lose in any particular situation.

The Power Of Building Winners Instead Of Trying To Win Best to focus on building winners than on trying to win. The approach is better for individuals and for the team, and it delivers better results over time.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Without open source standards, the Internet would not exist.

This article would not exist.

Those of you whose parents met on Match.com would not exist.

All of you should be thankful for open source software.

Now, as the world has changed, open source software’s principles of openness, transparency and meritocracy have become essential standards for leadership in general.

Why Open Leadership Has Become Essential As the world has changed, open source software's principles of openness, transparency and meritocracy have become essential standards for leadership.