The Best Minute: Invest in People--Blanchard and Johnson

"The Best Minute I Spend Is The One I Invest in People"

This is one of the key points in The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson.  This point is so simple, yet so many leaders in their busy, over-scheduled days, forget this.  They go on to write the following:

"Most companies spend 50% to 70% of their money on people's salaries.  And yet they spend less than 1% of their budget to train their people.  Most companies, in fact, spend more time and money on maintaining their buildings and equipment than they do on maintaining and developing people."

Leaders should reflect when they are working on budgets and to do lists and priorities to make sure they are putting people first.