Your Best Investment — The Gold Mine
As leaders, we make investments in our businesses regularly—whether in technology, equipment, new facilities, or marketing. These are all important to staying competitive. But let’s not forget the greatest asset we have: our people. Henry Ford once said, “Take away my buildings, my land, my equipment, but leave me my people and in a short time I will have them all again.” The truth is simple: we can’t grow without the right people in the right roles. Consider the story of Andrew Carnegie, who built one of the largest steel companies in the early 1900s. He was known to have 43 millionaires working for him—a rarity in those days. When asked how he managed it, Carnegie replied: “They weren’t millionaires when I [...]