Comment by munificent
5 years ago
It's a cute anecdote, but I don't think it really illuminates enough or even thinks through the implications of its analogy.
Water evaporates out of the Dead Sea because there is somewhere better (in the sense of lower humidity at least) for it go.
If you treat people as evaporating and disappearing when they leave your company, you'll never have a clear picture if the dynamics at play. You need to think about where they are going and the relative difference between their current environment and the other one they escape too.
When the air holds enough humidity, it rains on the Dead Sea too sometimes.
In an ecological sense, the water level in the Dead Sea is dropping because Israel and Jordan siphon off too much water from the Jordan river for irrigation. By the time the river gets to the Dead Sea, the average flow rate is lower than average evaporation.
There is probably some metaphor in here for having a bad reputation decreasing your hiring funnel.