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Hired Then Ghosted: Why Sometimes You Just Have To Keep Going | Jason Lauritsen
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- Sep 22, 2026
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Summary
Jason Lauritsen sold copiers out of a minivan in rural Iowa, got sued by his old employer for starting a competing firm, watched his new business partner disappear into addiction treatment two weeks after they opened the doors, and once tried to lay off a colleague out loud in a budget meeting before he had even learned her name. Now he runs Connected Performance Group, helping leadership teams build workplaces people actually want to stay in. This episode traces that whole arc, from picking rocks out of an Iowa field at ten years old to the insight that changed how he thinks about leadership for good: most workplaces still treat work like a contract to be enforced, when what people actually need is to feel like it is a relationship built on trust. What you'll get from this episode: Why treating employees like units of production is a management model built on a flawed premise, and what to replace it with The seven months of zero results that taught Jason the difference between quitting too soon and staying the course How a leadership clarity gap, not a performance problem, is usually the real thing costing you retention The connected performance framework Jason uses with leadership teams: clarity, alignment, and management capability Why the workplace stories that feel the most dysfunctional often reveal exactly what needs to change Get to know Jason: Jason Lauritsen is the CEO of Connected Performance Group and an advisor to leaders who are tired of choosing between results and their people. A former corporate executive, he developed the Connected Performance System to help leaders fix the systems that drive performance by strengthening connection at work. Jason is the author of Unlocking High Performance and a keynote speaker known for pairing provocative insight wi…