Hire happiness
I did a presentation on appreciative leadership this morning with a group of CEO’s (a dialogue actually) with Mustard Seed Market co-founder and friend, Phil Nabors. This is a very successful business with a very credible 500 year business plan and national groundbreaking best practices in the area of whole foods groceries, restaurants, and education programs.
Talking about how values drive growth, Phil explained how one of their core values in hiring is hiring happy people. With the realization that you can’t easily train happiness as you could cashiering, this practice is key to everything else that follows. This parallels something from Henry James: The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of mind of the producer.
