Treat People Like Robots, and You Get Robot Effort

I walked out on my lunch break and never went back.

Then I did it again at the next job.

I wasn't a perfect employee back then, but I had terrible management. It was a big-box store, my ideas didn't matter, and I felt stuck doing a robot job.

People call those "low-level jobs." That phrase is terrible. Those workers keep the whole system running, and they're usually paid and treated like the bare minimum.

So I started hand-painting t-shirts and selling them on eBay. I made more doing that than I did at the store. That's when I decided to become the kind of leader I always wanted to work for.

My friend and client Patrick Manigault named exactly what I felt back then: when people don't feel seen, heard, or valued, they disengage. Treat people like robots and you get robot effort.

Go get his new book, Humanity at Work, and check out his newly updated website we just finished building together. https://lnkd.in/gTjNaQ_d