PART #6: EMBRACE EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP Painful truth: Your people are renting, not owning, their jobs. DEAR EXECUTIVES (FROM EMPLOYEE) Dear Executives: I enjoy working for this company. I like the people here, the culture, and I believe in the product! I want to succeed here ­ in big ways. And make a name for myself. I want to contribute. I want to grow here and build my career further with you. I want to help the company, but I’m not always sure how. I frequently get frustrated. It’s hard to get time with you to have real conversations. I feel like you don’t listen to myself or the other employees ­ we have ideas too. I’ve tried to share mine, but after the third time where nothing happened and no one cared or listened, I just gave up. It’s so hard to change anything here (even little things), and I don’t know where my career is going with you, or have any confidence you even care about it or me. In other words, while I make decent money here today, I don’t feel valued ­ and that makes me feel like I don’t have a future here. So I am only motivated to do the minimum here to get by, rather than going above