A number of years ago, I met with Diana Duff, the owner of Major Machining,
Inc. (MMI), a machine shop. She wanted out. I suspected that her severe case
of "early onset burnout" was due to the departure of her three-person
management team six months earlier. These employees had not just left the
company, they had set up a competing machine shop funded by the many MMI
customers they took with them.