Where I live, the California Cheese people have an advertising campaign (I assume in competition with Wisconsin) that show miserable cows in the midst of blizzards followed by \u201chappy\u201d cows basking in the sun, almost frolicking in the California sunshine.\u00a0 The theory I suppose is that happy cows will produce better milk and therefore better cheese.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s analyze this one layer deeper with cows from Japan.\u00a0 Most of us have now heard of kobe beef.\u00a0 After all, I\u2019ve heard that Kobe Bryant was named after this stuff.\u00a0 Kobe beef is now available in the U.S., but it\u2019s just not the same as the stuff you can get over in Japan.\u00a0 After all, it\u2019s not just the meat that\u2019s great, it\u2019s how the cows are ranched.\u00a0 The theory here is that in order to get the best product, you want your cows to be in the ideal condition, with the proper environment and inputs to make them \u201csuccessful.\u201d\u00a0 Here\u2019s the deal.\u00a0 To make sure that the beef is the most tender, these cows are subjected to piped in music to help them relax.\u00a0 Even better than that, they undergo a relaxation and seasoning routine for their entire lives that involves the consumption of large quantities of beer.\u00a0 Think about this, you may already cook your meet with beer, but what if the meat was pre-infused with the stuff.\u00a0 Not only that, but this helps guarantee that the meat is tender as the cows are too \u201cbuzzed\u201d their entire lives to really toughen up the meat.\u00a0 Lastly, and oddest of all, these cows get daily massages.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take relaxation to the extreme why don\u2019t we.\u00a0 Have you ever heard of massaging a cow?\u00a0 Pretty odd stuff.<\/p>\n
The point being that you control the environment, culture and to some degree the flow of resources to your workforce.\u00a0 This environment can be Wisconsin-like (sorry guys in Wisconsin), California sunshine, or heck, you can go to extremes and go for kobe beef quality.\u00a0 (definitely no commentary on Wisconsin cheese here BTW.\u00a0 I\u2019m not cheese connoisseur.).\u00a0 I\u2019m reminded by places during the internet boom when people were excited about the work they were doing, willing to spend all day and night working on projects with their peers.\u00a0 Many of these companies provided on-site bowling alleys, fooz ball machines and such.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying this was the right model, but it sure did seem to stimulate the right type of environment to encourage the workforce to keep things moving forward.\u00a0 I also know of many organizations that certainly do provide on-site massages on a weekly\u00a0 basis (sign-ups of course) and even beer socials occasionally after work.\u00a0 The massages provide some relief for employees who are hunched over a computer desk all day, and the beer socials can provide a way to network and see peers face to face in an ever increasingly e-mail\/IM\/VM world.\u00a0 You get to decide what\u2019s effective for your organization, but know that those perqs do make a difference if they are targeted strategically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Where I live, the California Cheese people have an advertising campaign (I assume in competition with Wisconsin) that show miserable cows in the midst of blizzards followed by \u201chappy\u201d cows basking in the sun, almost frolicking in the California sunshine.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}