Take care of your people, a great story about a social entrepreneur

from, of all places, the bastion of fundamentalist christian extremism, my disowned home town, colorado springs, a conservative, kita power-spot if there ever was one...

He created a system to help resolve the problems of the working poor who staffed his restaurants by pulling together or creating an array of services, from arranging day care to organizing transportation to making small emergency loans. The goal, he said, was to keep his employees on the job and focused on customers.

this is the kind of person and the kind of story i would like to see a hell of a lot more of... working stiffs and wage slaves are the fundamental ingredient of any organization, be it public or private, for-profit or nonprofit... there IS no product or service, no customers or clients, no cash flow, and no organization without the front-line employees there to deliver it...

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