What do you think prevents most business owners from acting on the vital importance of positive social relations in the workplace?

I would think that success is the ultimate goal for any business. The owner with this in mind probably wouldn’t consider positive social relationships of the employees as a means to that end.  It’s not been taught or practiced as being part of a successful business model over the years. It’s as if there was a blindspot to that concept.

omdat op zakelijk gebied  op de werkvloer enkel het ego telt,  winst maken  geen aandacht voor positieve connecties onder elkaar

Just because of the ego!!@@

They have no knowledge about it. And even if they were told, they probably wouldn’t apply it untill they have had some experience with it.

greed and fear – desire to receive for self – using and exploiting others for self benefit

Their own lack of experience of the positive social experience, being trapped in a survival, competing state. That is something “book knowledge” can not teach, no matter how much you keep “ educating” them, they will not change, impossible, and not their fault. They need to experience it, they need others, who have the experience to provide the safety that is OK to let go of competition and collaborate, because if you do, 1 + 1 can equal not two, but 3,4, … so on. The whole world needs people who are “healed” enough to provide the safety net for competitors not to “jump” into perceived positive connections – which might end up an ego booster –  but ease themselves into it with small steps led by example. So many of my precious learnings, trainings and sufferings are coming alive again here. Two of the most popping gems are: …  I am paraphrasing and forgot where is coming from, but is from trauma informed training/practices … 1. Children do not get traumatized because of what happens to them, but because they are left alone during the bad experience. 2. Trauma is untapped potential!                                                 Powerful, meaningful and that is where correcting the Ego, and our human condition, hides.