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- April 21, 2020 at 4:20 am EDT #28476

KabUParticipantWhat do you think prevents most business owners from acting on the vital importance of positive social relations in the workplace?
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- March 26, 2026 at 11:58 am EDT #492080
Carina
ParticipantMost business owners operate in a system that rewards short-term financial results, so they fear that prioritizing genuine connection will make them lose ground to more aggressive rivals. Their ego then turns customers and workers into instruments for profit, blocking honest dialogue and mutual responsibility. A business aligned with the law of connection would still earn profit, but only as a byproduct of creating real benefit for others and measuring success by the quality of its human relationships.
- January 14, 2026 at 4:52 am EST #475827
ChrissyParticipantFocusing on profit and being ego-driven can overshadow the importance of building positive relationships and fostering healthy connections in the workplace.
- November 15, 2025 at 3:18 am EST #466158
Janina PaasonenParticipantTheir will to receive for oneself only makes them egoistic. Instead of focusing to social question they focus to personal profit. This makes them attached, creedy and scary.
- October 26, 2025 at 1:08 pm EDT #462074
Marita
ParticipantMost business owners focus on profit, growth and efficiency. If people loved their co-workers and their work, the bosses would feel that the workers might spend too much time chatting away with each other on coffee breaks and lunches that no work would be done. It is about control and power, divide and conquer. When the focus is on money, people become robot-like “resources” whose function is not to maintain social relations but to obey and be productive. High productivity gets distracted by human interaction.
- July 1, 2025 at 8:37 pm EDT #444103
Delayne MohammedParticipantA fear of loosing control of the work place after all we are being led.
- June 12, 2025 at 7:05 pm EDT #442144
BrendanParticipantTheir egos make them want to act superior to others
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