A friend of mine — I’ll call him Jim — was in the running for a C-suite job at his company, a consumer packaged goods firm. I’ve known him for years, and he’d always seemed happy and fulfilled in his career. So, imagine my surprise when not long ago I got this two-word text message from him: “I quit.”
I texted him back asking if everything was okay. I expected that he would reference a dispute with another leader or a business decision gone bad. Instead, he said, “I’m becoming the kind of person I don’t want to be.”
We spoke on the phone, and he…
