Good managers know that the intangibles matter, often as much as the tangibles. It's like skimping on craft service - fuck you, this job is shittier than most I've worked for this money, and you don't even have goddamn Red Vines? What kind of monster are you?

Bad managers forget that people are people and that if you prompt a calculation of "am I better here or better somewhere else" the intangibles will be assigned a tangible value. Because it is intangible, it will not be assigned rationally.

Prusa has good managers. They've grown from zero to 600 employees in ten years. 80% of their printers are kits, and 100% of those kits come with gummi bears. They added up that they've given away 14,000 kilos of gummi bears, which have nothing whatsoever to do with 3d printing, but when you open up that thing and it's got all the tools and it's got gummi bears? It's an indication that the company whose stuff you just bought likes you enough to toss you a bag of gummi bears.

One of our fellow birth centers has bad managers. They had two locations and just announced Friday that they were selling one of them. The buyers immediately fired all the employees and, when they get around to it, will let the patients know that they can sign up again with the birth center but their caregivers are gone. Meanwhile the other location just told a friend of ours that she can cut her (unpaid) maternity leave short by four months or she can get fired, since there are now a couple midwives looking for a job. It all makes perfect financial sense... and it will poison the community for a decade or more.