April 29th 2008
Choose your team carefully, turn your team members on and keep them happy by taking great care of them.
“People are made up of 99% emotion and 1% reason. Take care of their hearts and their heads will follow”
Joy Madison
You arrive at work and turn on the machines - they work away day-in and day-out, producing a fixed quantity at a fixed quality. If they break down, it is simple to trace the problem and fix it. When your machines are old and fully depreciated, you simply replace them with new and improved models.
Your people are totally different - they can be complex, moody, temperamental, unpredictable and often secretive and insecure. They are known to report late, steal, break things, strike, sulk or just go slow. That’s just the way it is. And often it has a lot to do with the way you treat them. Continue Reading »
