News Analysis
“I can’t seem to hire good and reliable people anymore,” the manager of an Apple store told me over the weekend. “I don’t get it. They aren’t motivated by money. They can’t show up on time. They are not driven to do better. There is no personal ambition. Something is wrong.”
His own plan is to leave the company and start his own small shop, if only to relieve himself of the great burden of personnel management and hiring. He has a few friends he trusts and so he will work with them to build something new from the ground up, a local company serving local customers, one that does not need to scale up in order to be profitable….