My Business On Purpose

If we could boil this entire morning down to one phrase, I think it would be captured in the phrase “intentionally engaging”. Intentional - done with purpose… deliberate. Engaging - charming and attractive. Patrice talked about the time, effort, and money spent in recruiting, hiring, and onboarding a new team member.   I had the opportunity to work with Pfizer and was told that the onboarding of a new team member cost the company around $200k.   Certainly compelling, but that is not the real reason that you don’t want to lose team members. The real reason we want a cohesive team that values longevity is for the same reason that we go back to the same restaurants, revisit the same destination, pull for the same sports team, and drive the same route to work. We really do value stability, community, and “being known”. Every Tuesday at our house we are humbled and honored to host a group of young men that over time has become known as “Man Up” Back in 2016, I began meeting a group of HS Freshman guys at Wendy’s i