
Staff up! Stop milking our personal time.
The talks and recordings they do about how they think and operate. We need way more of that transparency; sometimes saying it out loud to the whole company helps at least self-enumerate anti-patterns and hopefully work on those/get coaching.
Have a variable compensation strategy for top performers, beyond local baseline. You're not competing for talent with a mediocre local insurance company. You're competing against FAANG/other tech companies that pay top talent fairly. Standard bands mean talent performs at lower avg levels or leaves
Less politics, mgmt not encourage toxic internal competition between team members, instead nurturing knowledge sharing, training folks on giving feedback, and how to give feedback about the problem, not the person. more pair programming & collaborative planning sessions, not top down. look up ORID