Six months of salary.

That's what Matt Mullenweg offered every Automattic employee to resign if they didn't believe in the company's direction.

About 9% took the offer and left. The result surprised Matt.

Misalignment is a hidden cost. In Matt's words, it shows up as "passive-aggressive gunking up the works."

"We started moving faster, even though we had fewer people," he told me.

I went many places doing research for my new book including factories. I want to tell you what I learned on one of these visits.1/22 It was a consumer products factory going through a lean transformation. It was going well, but they still had a problem to solve.2/22