Every organization has between one and three technical crafts which spin its economic engine. Leaders should ensure their organizations honor the craft and their craft workers. How?
- Spotlight excellence in the craft at an individual and collective level.
- Help improve the tools of the craft to increase worker safety and efficiency.
- Invest in the craft more broadly through associations or standards setting organizations.
- Be a spokesperson for the craft throughout and outside your organization.
Your organization benefits as craft workers sharpen their skills and bring new perspectives, tools, and processes into your organization.
This helps guard your organization’s economic engine.
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” Ernest Hemingway
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