This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 480.

The cost of turnover is significant, but it's small compared to all the operational costs that come with high turnover.

And people's inability to focus on the job because they're paid low and they have all sorts of stress in their lives.

From healthcare facilities to call centers, fulfillment centers to factories and restaurants to retail stores,

companies are struggling to find or keep workers because the jobs they offer are

low-paying, stressful, and provide little chance for growth and success. Hi, I'm Jeff Brown. This is

the Read to Lead podcast, where I believe that if you want to achieve true success in business

and in life, well, that starts with a consistent reading habit. I created this podcast

in part to help you build that reading habit. Today, we're going to hear from the author of a book

called The Case for Good Jobs, how great companies bring dignity, pay, and meaning to everyone's work.

That author's name is Zanip Tone. Among other things, Zanip and I plan to talk about some of the

ways in which low pay, coupled with high turnover, are far more expensive than many leaders

think it is. Her response to leaders who suggest some people aren't worth more pay or

some jobs don't create the value to warrant more money, the general lack of trust that many

leaders have in frontline employees today, and plenty more.

Today is Tuesday, June 20th, and that means that cohort five of note-making mastery begins

tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern Time. You still have time to sign up for this fifth iteration of a course I first

launched just over a year ago. If you have difficulty effectively capturing your notes, knowing what

to write and how much, and find that your notes are often of little or no use to you later,

your notes are siloed inside various note capture apps and hard to call upon when needed,

or you do a good job of capturing other

people's thoughts from the content you consume, but those insights never seem to evolve into

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