
Want more money?
Switch job.
Old story. Everybody knows it.
But itâs not just about higher wages.
đ Itâs about pace of innovation.
New hires bring new ideas.
Sometimes they disrupt decade-old processes.
Frequent reshuffle forces innovation.
The US is leading this trend, while Italy is a negative outlier.
Many elements explain this gap.
But the best companies even in the US retain people for the long run.
Think of Doug McMillon, who went from summer intern to Walmart CEO in over 30 years at the company!
As always, the best soup is the one with just the right temperature.
Between hopping jobs every year and staying 20+ years, thereâs a massive in-between that companies should encourage.
Especially now. In the age of AI.
Companies must accept to be disrupted from the inside, by their own people, rather than waiting for outsiders.
Great companies attract talents who bring great ideas. Day one. Year five. Year ten.
But they must listen. And trust.
If not, those ideas will go elsewhere.
And so will the money.
Big Tech nailed this.
Itâs not unusual to see employees staying 10+ years while still driving crazy innovation.
Something Italian, and more broadly, European, companies should definitely learn from.