Don't lose sight of the human being that produces your numbers

Sandy Gennaro

Sandy Gennaro (Cyndi Lauper / Joan Jett): I remind corporations what's really important. Sometimes people in a corporate world focus too much on the numbers, on the result of somebody's work at their company. "What have you produced for me? What have you done for me and my company?" And they're judged based on just those numbers… spreadsheets, quarterly quotas, pie graphs. "How much is your vacation going to be? How much is going to be my bonus?" These are all thoughts about numbers.

And I call this “paying attention to just the icing and not the cake.” The cake in this case is the people behind the numbers. Focus on the person in addition to the numbers that they produce.

CEOs need to be reminded, because their head sometimes is totally involved with the numbers and the profitability and the shareholders. "Are the shareholders going to be happy?" But what about the people that provide the numbers for your company, that provide the product or service that your shareholders love? You know what I mean? It's about that. Don't lose sight of the human being that produces your numbers.

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