Good morning.
It’s Friday, and I haven’t done a feedback post in a while, so today is the day.
First, K.P., who runs a Fortune 500 company, had this to say about yesterday’s post on the possible end of the empathetic leader:
“What I see across industries is that there is a new generation of workers that want to work for companies that share their values, who want to work for leaders who value them and care for them, who understand their struggles and do what they can to support them. We are still in tight labor markets and I think the companies that win will be the ones that attract and engage the best of the best.”
M.C. was skeptical about CEOs demanding a return to office:
‘So a ‘return to the office’ isn’t the same thing as a ‘return to work’. People have been working more/longer from home. And productivity has soared with remote work (much more productive than ‘commute’ hours), shown in record corporate profits….That said, cultures like Amazon have never been empathetic.”
And J.L.G. was surprised to learn about the end of free coffee in the Goldman Sachs sky lobby:
“Goldman pays their employees millions, and can't provide free coffee?”
Finally, M.S. correctly took me to task for saying last Friday that the U.S. doesn’t have a functioning government:
“The government functions just fine. Its biggest bits—insurance and defense—are all in place. So are smaller bits, from air traffic control to schools to highway maintenance… Most people in the world would love to have a government like ours.
“It’s our politics that are broken, for all of the reasons you have written about and more. That’s an important difference.”
Yes, it is an important difference, and I apologize for misstating it. Our politics are broken. Our government may not be perfect, but it remains the envy of much of the world.
More news below.
Alan Murray
@alansmurray
alan.murray@fortune.com
