The Quiet Leader Nobody Notices Until They Leave
About two years ago, someone left one of the engineering teams in my org whose contribution I didn’t have full visibility into until after they were gone. Not dramatically underappreciated — they were well-compensated, well-reviewed, treated respectfully. But I hadn’t fully seen what they were doing, and when they left, the teams they’d been quietly supporting revealed the size of the gap in the way that only becomes fully legible in retrospect. ...