A leader explains how his parents' factory jobs shaped his approach to management. He invests heavily in his team because he wants to give them what his parents never had: respect and stability. He commits to never laying off employees during downturns, viewing it as both moral duty and inherited value.
That also goes back to remembering when my parents used to come home working in factories and having heavy hearts because they weren't treated right. Or even today, when people ask me, wow, you're generous with that, or you didn't lay off your employees during a hard time, that I know that building an engaged team will cost me money and will cost time and will require sacrificing. But I'm getting 2 things. I'm getting an engaged team, and I'm also living through the values that I would have wanted for my parents remembering that in my childhood.
