Author of best seller, Leading the Workforce for the Future, Brigette Hyacinth, has told managers of organizations not to be impressed with money, titles and degrees but rather they should be impressed with humility, honesty, integrity and kindness. These four virtues in her view are preferable to money, titles and degrees.
Hyacinth believes that these four special qualities will pave way for the success of an organization and will even lead to more money for the company. This is because men of integrity and honesty will not steal company money nor divert funds for organisation’s projects to personal accounts.
But people who have degrees can their degrees and titles to defraud the company and thereby wreck the company. This is where many managers are failing. In times of recruitment, they look for degrees and paper qualifications not character qualification, that is why most firms have challenges.
In a post on LinkedIn, she posted: “Don’t be impressed by money, titles or degrees. Be impressed by humility, integrity, honesty and kindness. Too often I hear managers say, “I am not running a charity. It’s a business I have to run.” Yes, but it’s people you are leading. If you want to earn employee loyalty, start treating everyone with respect regardless of their status or job title!”
