Jim Johnson argues leaders should stop viewing employees as profit-makers and instead help them reach their own life goals. When a boss invests in someone's personal aims, the relationship shifts from employment to partnership.
We're so much in it about what's in it for me? And, hey, if you come to work for me, you're gonna make me a bunch of money. You and me. What if instead it was, hey, you come to work for me? What are you about? What are you trying to get to? What's your goal in life? What's your reason for living? If I can figure out what that is, and I can help them get after that thing, you're no longer an employee or a relationship. You're a partner.
