What are the competitive advantages of a corporate identity that is saturated in and defined by family values?
A business run with a family-focused philosophy gives employees the leeway, flexibility and creativity to be proactive in putting their own personalities into accomplishing their goals. Of course, certain disciplines and skill sets are required for each job, but when you aren’t over-managing or micromanaging and when you don’t stand over employees with a job manual and expect them to perform the robotics of the job functions contained within the pages, you will be amazed to discover the entrepreneurial spirit that comes to life among employees. When you run things that way, innovative job descriptions, entire departments, imaginative projects and ambitious goals are evolved and created. Instead of setting stiff requirements and restrictions, job descriptions should be written in pencil — not pen. Most people have something to contribute. But when you are simply basing it off a three-line job description, who really knows if that person and that particular job are compatible? You give i
