How many of you still thinks that employees are expenses instead of assets? We have heard of this. So, one… thousands?
Why?
Well, perhaps these people would say “just look at the books, where do employees fall on?” Uhmm – trying to use logic huh, however blind? This is like, which came first, chicken or egg? There are those who would say egg, for they would argue that before becoming a chicken, it would still be an egg.
Alright then. We’d just run circles if we fall for that. It’s just like believing that employees are expenses instead of assets.
You want logic, here’s logic.
Did God create Cain or Abel before He did Adam and Eve? Did God fashion an egg before showing us the chicken? You might say “but that’s not business”. Right.
Leaders, readers… everything is simply common sense. Don’t complicate things to make it sound prestigious. It would only show how shallow you are if that’s the case. Everything can be learned. And if only you look deeper, you would realize how valuable your employees are. And it’s not because others say so, but because you really understand how business works.
“A personnel man with his arm around an employee is like a treasurer with his hand in the till.” – Robert Townsend
Without employees, you would not have the people to help you produce… from visualizing to creating to innovating to marketing to selling to collecting and all.
Oh, what if you are a “one-man army”? Guess what? We are talking about the value of the employee not about yours. For if you insist on that argument then sadly, you are narcissistic and do not deserve to have employees.
“It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income and when one has a reasonable income, one has better things to do than loving mankind.”
~ Hugh Kingsmill
Without empathy, you can never be that Leader. Yes, you could pay your people to do this and that; but have you ever wondered of what your performance appraisal would be if they be the ones to do it on you instead? Good?? Technically possible, however, satisfaction, respect and loyalty is yours if you not only know your job but understand and value your people.
Do you? Then walk the talk.
Remember:
“People are people… not personnel.” – Tom Peters
Jesse Domingo
