My new Facebook buddy, Anthony McCann recently shared an article from TimesOnline.com, titled, “Small is Beautiful in the New Capitalism.“ Now, granted the article is about small business and entrepreneurs, but I think larger corporations can learn something from it too.
“If I’m going to produce something, it should do something really good,” says fashion mogul, Joe Corre, who recently blew up his business model to focus more on quality than profits. In corporations we have lost our focus on quality – a word which can be interpreted many different ways.
We must explore and respect our employees’ interpretations of the word “quality.“ When you are constantly cutting corners, whether it’s in external products or services, or the internal workings of your company, your employees’ work will come to feel meaningless − breeding indifference to wanting to do a good job for their organization.
That “personal, soulful experience” the article’s author mentions can equally apply to business owners’ and employees’ experience, as well as the customer experience.
Business owner, Sarah Bagner sums it up nicely with her comment, “It’s about learning how to treasure things again.” What if you applied that thought to your work and your employees today?
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