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Just Look 'em in the Eye
Positive Power of Principled Profit ( Privacy Policy ) Just Look 'em in the Eye By Michael T. Smith My boss and I walked down the hallway of our building. "Hi, John." I said to a passing gentleman. "Hey, Susan!" I called to a woman headed to the water cooler. "Jeff? What's shakin'?" I asked another. My boss looked at me, "I've been here longer than you, and yet you know everyone. How do you do that?" I didn't answer right away. He made me realize, I did know almost everyone who worked on the four floors our company occupied in the building. It is like that at all the companies I have worked for. It continues at the new company I work for today. I knew the security guards that monitored our safety. I knew the cleaners, the maintenance men, the bosses, and the workers. I knew them all. Hundreds of people I could call "my friends." Outside the office, wherever I lived, I knew all the neighbors. I knew the grocery clerks and the guy who takes the carts from the parking lot.

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