Yes, it was a challenge to keep the mindset of the company in control. We’ve had plenty of success with our company over the last few years. However, we’ve still had a few things that have been difficult to keep up with. The reality is that many of the changes that we’ve made to our company’s culture have been quite successful.
I think that companies are just born with these tendencies and have to work to keep them in check (or at least on their path to staying in control). It is a real challenge.
I’ve spoken with a number of companies and they all seem to be doing very well and have a very positive attitude toward their culture and their culture values.
To be honest I have to admit that there is a big difference between companies, and humans. I think that the majority of people are a bunch of little robots who are programmed to think and act in certain ways. As a result many of us are programmed to react to things rather than listen to things. I think that a lot of companies are very smart and have learned how to have a positive impact on their communities.
I don’t think there is a human being on earth who has not been programmed to think that they are better than others. I believe that we all have a bias toward looking for “the obvious” and “the good guys”, when in reality the good guys and bad guys are both human beings.
One of the reasons that most companies don’t do a great job of this is because they just assume that they are not the evil ones. Some business leaders even feel that they are the good guys because they want to see their employees be good. Many companies have an attitude of “we know what we are doing,” but many of them are not doing a very good job of this.
Many big companies tend to focus on the “good guys”. They are the ones that are “nice”. The ones that are “sensible”. The ones that take care of their people and treat them with respect. The ones that are not greedy. The ones that don’t do unethical things. The ones that don’t steal. The ones that are not stupid. The ones that are just good. The ones that are not evil.
The key word here is “good.” Many companies treat their employees poorly, often giving them no real security. Employees are often treated as expendable, which makes it harder to keep them happy. This makes it harder for them to get ahead and make a good living, and ultimately harder for them to stay.
This goes hand-in-hand with the statement about the people at the companies that are not greedy being greedy. Not only is greed a bad thing, but it is a bad thing for employees (who also do not have much self-awareness).
As for employees, the thing that is more true is that a lot of companies are doing what they can to help their employees, but it’s not as if the employees are all doing very well. One of the best ways that I’ve found to help employees is to have them volunteer with local charities, but this means that the work they do is unpaid and they have a lot of other obligations. I’ve heard a few stories of companies that have had to reduce their paid hours because of this.
