Some Insight on Corporate Investment in One's Employees

Thanks to Lisa Fairfax of the Conglomerate Blog for bringing to my attention this delightful and refreshing personal story about her conversation with a company owner on an airplane:

I have been traveling a bit lately and, as is apparently inevitable, my most recent flight was delayed.  However, the delay gave me the opportunity to speak with a fellow passenger who happened to own a mid-sized business . . . .

[H]e explained that he made it a point to have a very flexible work schedule for his employees, and if people needed time off or to come in late to "watch their kids or whatever"--his answer was always that they should take the time, their job would be there when they returned.  He said the answer was the same if the time off was ten minutes or ten months.  When I asked him if he could really run a business with people taking ten months off at a time, he responded that the problem with most people in human resources was that they "forget that resources are things you build up, not something you constantly turn over."

So, now the question is how do we bottle this wisdom and sell it to all employers?

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