Every Employee Is Someone's Child | A Bit of Optimism #Podcast

The lens through which you see people affects the way you treat people. My first half of my career was very traditional about management, financial results and growth. And through the series of revelations I went through where the lens through which I saw people because I saw them as machinists, labor union members, office people, people working on the floor, all the traditional ways we talk about it, and the lens was reversed. And I saw them as somebody's precious child that's been placed in my career. Everything changed for me because I was raised that you need people to achieve results and when you don't need them anymore, you let them go. So the lens was clearly seen. If you see people as somebody's precious child, it profoundly affects your leadership style. My major responsibility to people in our company is to give them a grounded sense of hope for the future. They can trust in my care. I take that incredibly profoundly seriously.