If the headline above should hold true, then as organisations we should really think about this notion through a more humanised lens and ensure the phrase “people as assets” really stands for something. In a Harvard Business School executive education course I took part in, the notion of human capital as the biggest challenge for business leaders was brought into question. We simply are not taking care of it they way we should be.
I have been reading more and more about the notion of modern commercial economics, and the philosophy of considering a person as a unit of economic production. It started in the industrial revolution and has been the driving principle of our day-to-day modus
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