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Bad management rarely looks like a crisis at first. It appears in silence, shrinking participation, stalled growth and people who stop raising their hands. Mahi Rath , Head of People - APAC , Salesloft explains why the most damaging managers are often the hardest to recognise and what organisations miss before good people leave.

One bad fish contaminates the entire tank. For Mahi Rath, that is more than a metaphor. After years of building People & Culture functions across fast-moving organisations, she has seen how one manager can influence an entire team's confidence, ambition and willingness to speak. The damage rarely arrives as a dramatic incident. More often, it accumulates quietly: a high performer stops raising her hand, a new joiner calibrates themselves downward, people stop disagreeing, and eventually the people with the most options begin to leave.