How Low Self-Esteem Fuels Business at a Personal Cost

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Employees with low self-worth are very good for business.

Will this be an unpopular opinion? I’m not sure, but it’s something I truly believe.

While it is unethical for businesses to knowingly exploit employees with low self-worth, which contradicts the shift towards employee empowerment and the focus on wellbeing, many companies may still be doing this unknowingly.

This is not a business-bashing piece but more of an awareness of what can drive some of those top achievers in any business.

The fuel

Let’s start with what makes a business thrive and have a big, fat bottom line.

People.

You can have the most innovative, cash-positive business, but without people grinding away and pouring their blood, sweat, and sometimes tears into it, it’s not going to succeed.

People are everything in business, and you need a wide range of different types of people to collectively come together to make the wheels turn and the business move forward.

Too many tech and finance types and your culture is flat as a pancake! Sorry to my techy and finance friends, but the soft, fluffy stuff that makes a business warm…