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If you’ll forgive me for getting on a frequent hobbyhorse, beyond the point about mission-driven enterprises, this is important due to the dignity of labor. Everyone is doing something meaningful or they wouldn’t be there; they should believe that. https://t.co/KbGUzXz90D
Managers in the U.S. are not blessed by a cultural substrate which broadly inculcates dignity. It’s difficult to delivery consistently, but like paychecks, you owe it to your employees to deliver it consistently. Come hell or high water.
I will make the obligatory disclaimer that all cultures change over time and one of the Society Is Falling Apart worries in Japan in the last ~3 decades has been “People these days don’t really believe a broom pusher at Toyota *works for Toyota* with all that entails.”