Board members, like top executives, are not involved in day-to-day operations.  Their responsibilities involve the largest picture, floating high above the lower and middle levels of the organization, seeing forests but not trees.  But it is critical that board members learn why employee’s feelings are so important and they need to gain agreement among all the stakeholders—management, employees and shareholders—that achieving high levels of employee enthusiasm and involvement is everyone’s responsibility and a high priority. In an increasingly harsh economic reality, all of an organization’s stakeholders need to direct their competitive energies externally, against the competition while they collaborate within the organization.

What people do is largely determined by how they feel.  Too many people are being affected by the widespread Psychological Recession, which is the depressed and anxious feeling that the present is no good and the future will be even more catastrophic.  Making it worse, you feel you’re hanging from a tree limb in a cold wind and no one cares.  To a large extent, these feelings stem from employees’ feelings that they are no longer stakeholders in the companies they work for, with the predictable result that anxiety and stress dominate the workplace.

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