Who’s Important?
Do you want to know who’s really valued by your organization’s so-called leadership? Just take a look at who’s located physically close to them. Look who’s got the big offices and what they’ve actually done to grow the organization. Look at who gets to go on company junkets. Look at who gets the training dollars. Are they the organization’s value producers, or are they the overhead consumers? Are they members of contracts, finance, marketing, human resources, business development, communications, compliance, or are they the people who create the value that keeps the organization alive: the engineers, the designers, the manufacturers, the integrators, the testers, the customer trainers, the customer support staff? Odds are that the people who directly create the wealth are cloistered in cubicle farms at the “back” or “bottom” of the building and treated as second class citizens. Long live those fossil managers who are stuck in the past and are ignorantly happy to operate by Ford’s , Taylor’s, and Sloane’s rules – regardless of what they say. Clueless dolts.
