When a beloved manager on my team, Robyn Morris, left after many years to pursue a different passion, I was talking with one of his successors about how much we all missed him and deeply felt his absence. She said to me, “No one person can entirely replace Robyn, and that’s okay. More of us will just need to step up to grow into the gaps that he left behind.” Sure enough, a year later, the team was thriving, and the ways that this manager and others blossomed as leaders have been amazing to watch.
