There comes a time when of your own accord or others, you must leave (a job, a business or an investment).

How you leave says more about your attitude and behaviour than the mechanics of your departure. Stealing client data, dissing the current/future leadership and burning bridges, merely serves to raise the risk of working with you in the minds of your greatest admirers.

If you don’t see it that way, perhaps you have a “blind spot” that no amount of reputation management can rectify?