Sunday, August 2, 2009

Thought on Big Business

Earlier this week my business partner Lucas and I were talking about big businesses, and that is when I decided to make my topic this week on big businesses.
In our conversation we discussed how big businesses didn't respect their employees, how they just treat them like a number and not a person. It's like they forgot what they were taught in business 101, "to get respect you have to earn respect".

That made me think of a time when I was working in a factory and every year we would have a job holders meeting, basically telling us the status of the company and what the future expectations of the company was.
During the meeting our CEO was not able to be there, so he made a video to be viewed by all employees. The thing that upset me the most was the way he started the video, his very first statement was "Cash Is King", that statement upset me so much that I don't think I will ever for forget it, at that time, I think he lost total respect from all the employees viewing the video.

We also discussed what we will do when we have our own big business. I told him that I would give back to the employees, because without them and the customers the company would not exist. I explained to him how I would give back 75% of the profits to the employees, because they are the ones doing all the work.

I have seen to many companies that don't think about the ratifications of what would happen if their employees decided to walk out on them. Would they be able to run the company then? Who would manufacture their products? Do they have enough managers, board members, and CEO's to do the work thier employees did? Maybe management should think about that next time they want to take from the employees.

Don't get me wrong not all big business are like that, but the ones that aren't like that, are vary scarce.

If you want to talk about this topic more leave me a message. I would be more than happy to reply.

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