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> You have no duty to work at my company. If you don't wish to help me succeed (for any reason, at all), you are free to work elsewhere. Your job in building a
by mbell 15y ago
> You have no duty to work at my company. If you don't wish to help me succeed (for any reason, at all), you are free to work elsewhere.
Your job in building a company is to hire the best, most mission aligned people you can and help THEM succeed. You seem to think of employees as nothing but bricks in the road to your own personal success. This attitude ensures I have no interest in ever working with you and it has nothing to do with the topic of this post.
- snowwrestler 15y agoBut the opposite is also true--a charitable program can help attract the best employees if it is well-aligned with the type of people you want to hire. Patagonia's strong environmental commitment has helped them attract the best employees for their business, for instance. That commitment is solely Yvon Chouinard's decision since it is his company, but it's not inflicting anything on his employees--they love him for it.
- mbell 15y agoI completely agree but i don't understand how these are opposites. I believe your comment speaks to my "mission aligned" point. My position is that even if I was mission aligned with Yvon, if he views his employees as cogs in the machine to his personal success I would never work for him, or with him.
- Drbble 15y agoYou prefer to view your employer as a cog in the machine of your personal success. You aren't quite there on the concept of teamwork yet...
- rscale 15y ago> You seem to think of employees as nothing but bricks in the road to your own personal success. This attitude ensures I have no interest in ever working with you and it has nothing to do with the topic of this post. You've extrapolated far beyond what is reasonable.