[prutschman]

> On the other hand, this is very clearly about not going blatantly on each other's turf to solicit / poach

To the contrary, the article is clearly about the case where someone from another company's "turf" approaches you unsolicited:

> You check with your people to make sure that they did not approach Fred first and they assure you that Fred was already looking and will go to another company if not yours. Now what?

I think this is clearly about CEOs treating employees as the company's property in a psychological sense, rather than thinking about them as beings with agency.