Clark A. Ingram is the Founder and President of People Profits, LLC, which focuses on the three greatest human capital problems affecting organizations: employee turnover, chronically open positions, and skills gap. He consults with a spectrum of companies and has consistently reduced turnover by more than 40 percent in the first year and achieved staffing at more than 90 percent. His new book is Churn: Proven Strategies to Overcome Failing Conventional Talent Management and Achieve Zero Turnover (People Profits, March 26, 2026). Learn more at peopleprofits.com.
Stop Feeding the Monster: Why Pay Raises Won’t Fix Your Turnover
As a kid in Japan, I watched endless monster movies. One villain stuck with me: Ghidorah, a beast with one body and three heads—attack one and the other two chew on you. Decades later, after a CEO pulled me out of finance to fix an employee-turnover crisis, I met that monster for real. We were …