Beat The Curve On The Fed Hikes Impact With A People First Focus

Clear-cut differences separate what people in the homebuilding and myriad partner organizations they lead control from what they don’t control. Those  distinctions sharpen as real-time ticks toward a flashpoint due today out of the nation’s central bank.

Under the “don’t control” column – inflation, interest rates, supply chain disruptions – a three-headed spectre the Fed will try to tame with what some call a

The specific – time and place – context of such data includes visibility, shifts in leverage, etc. that add up to one conclusion homebuilder thought and practice leaders might recognize to their ultimate advantage.

That is that they, we, have more to learn than we know.

For instance, the very people – the talent, the central nervous system, heart, and soul of capability – that each organization’s leader regard as crucial in one way or another to the company’s performance has this inner dialog going on at some level.

Did these … companies pay workers fairly? Did they move to a more inclusive model, in which their frontline workers—not just shareholders and executives—share meaningfully in financial gains? Were financial losses borne equitably?

This report finds that nearly all of the companies fell short of their commitments to move to a more inclusive model. Overwhelmingly, financial gains benefitted wealthy shareholders and executives, while frontline workers experienced the greatest losses and benefited minimally from company success. Despite the hope and hype, the companies are paying workers only modestly more in real terms than they did before the pandemic—and, for most workers, still not enough to get by.

In an information-is-power business environment where information is everywhere, instantaneous, and abundant, the “do control” bucket list changes.

This is because all the given wisdom, experience, and knowledge of what it means to take care of people, nurture talent, cultivate upskilling, and deepen capability … all of it must be learned all over again, and again, and again.

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