Here’s a hard truth: if the company doubles but your people’s lives stay the same, they’ll leave. Every orientation, I tell our team we grow to create opportunities for them, so this is their last first day ever. Growth isn’t for me or the balance sheet. It’s the thing that lets your best people keep rising instead of hitting a ceiling and walking out the door.
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If your company doubles in size and your employees' lives don't get better, you're going to risk seeing your best people walk. Every other Monday, we have orientation here at Peter Moon Brothers. And I tell them, we grow to create opportunities for them. I want them to come here, and I want this to be their last first day ever. That's critical to me, and that's critical to our company growing. We want to grow to create opportunity so that they can go chase their dreams. They can do whatever it is that they want to do because we're always growing and always creating opportunities. If you're not growing, the same opportunities exist far into the future. How do we create more opportunities within our companies for people to make more money to get promotions, to take on new challenges? All of these things are important to people if they're going to keep growing.
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