Peter Cappelli

However, it has a special twist here because they have a policy of doing this, right?

Well, it avoids this problem for sure.

I think the broader lesson is think about it from their perspective, right?

Which is always a simple thing to say, but if you just stop and do it for a minute, it works reasonably well.

Or for people who are older, you just say, could you imagine, remember back when you were a new hire?

And how did you think about your boss then?

Boss was like this sort of godlike figure, right?

And they're ignoring you.

They speak to everybody but you in the morning.

Well, suddenly you're trying to figure out, I'm getting fired.

So putting yourselves in their shoes is probably the best thing we can do here.

Well, why?

Why should they?

I mean, what are you gaining from asking employees to just suck it up?

The fact that you don't have to speak to them in the morning because that's a big time saver and that's a big productivity improver.

It's not right.

So

These are things that Aristotle was describing, we would call it, as questions of manners, really, right?

So, you know, I want to be intemperate and ill-mannered as a boss.

Why?