Melanie Steinbach (ex-CHRO McDonald's / Kraft / IBM) — 'it's because the system around them made caring expensive'

Steinbach has run people functions as a CHRO at McDonald's, Kraft and IBM. Her post sets the pattern she has seen most across that career against the frame Incorruptible puts around it: when effort and contribution stop showing up in a workplace, what changed is the system built around the people.

“Throughout my career, one pattern shows up more than any other. People want to do good work. They want to contribute. They want their effort to matter. When that instinct gets buried, it's rarely because someone stopped caring. It's because the system around them made caring expensive.” — Melanie Steinbach on LinkedIn