"‘The employees of a company are treated, by the law and the accounts, as the property of the owners and are recorded as costs, not assets. This is demeaning, at the very least. Costs are things to be minimized, assets things to be cherished and grown. The language and the measures of business need to be reversed. **A good business is a community with a purpose, and a community is not something to be “owned.” A community has members, and those members have certain rights, including the right to vote or express their views on major issues.**’" ([Location 1165](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BU0NELQ&location=1165)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[organisational-culture]], [[organisational-values]] **Source** -- [[20250317012611 - B - Key Strategy Tools]]