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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Business | Managing Employees 101 (Part 2) - Why Management Is Mentorship

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0

Get ready to enter the Drive Time Show.

0:30.0

All right, Drive Nation. Welcome back to Part 2 of Managing Employees 101.

0:45.0

I want to put a few statistics on the show notes that I know anecdotally, but there are statistics that I think most people aren't aware of.

0:56.0

So statistic number one, according to research conducted by Gallup, 70% of American employees hate their jobs.

1:07.0

We'll put it. We'll put them on the show notes so you can click the link. You can verify that this is a fact and not just my hyperbolic opinion.

1:16.0

The second, the second fact I want to share is Marshall, what percentage of employees according to CBS news and the US Chamber of Commerce steal from the workplace, a whopping 75%.

1:34.0

So 75% of employees steal from the workplace.

1:39.0

And I think that's the ones that admit it. 70% of employees hate their job. So, but I am going to take the employees side of the argument during this entire six part series called Managing Employees 101.

1:54.0

Management is mentorship period. Management is mentorship. Now, I wrote a book called Will Not Work for Food where I can sit there and just blast you with statistics that share with you about the brokenness and the place where most people come from.

2:14.0

But what happens is in our culture is most people don't want to accept the reality of how bad the world is.

2:25.0

And so by not accepting the reality of how bad the world is, what you are doing is you are creating a false hope that life will be different than it is.

2:41.0

And you are trying to manage based upon that false reality. So as an example, if you believe that all of your employees have not gone through some really, really troubling and stressful things, previous to coming to work for you, then you are wrong.

2:58.0

And you are going to be in a bad position. So I am going to give you some statistics that will blow your mind.

3:05.0

Okay, and Chef, just try to take note of them as we go. And this is all cited in my book Will Not Work for Food. And I will read it nice and slow because the pros go slow.

3:15.0

If you are trying to hide something or falsify numbers, you kind of go fast. But let me just go nice and slow.

3:22.0

Therefore, everybody can, can merit it on this. Okay. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in four women have been sexually abused before the age of 18, one in four, and one in six men have been sexually abused before the age of 18, I am included in that list.

3:44.0

So that means that more than 42 million people out there have had some type of sexual abuse, previous to coming to work for you.

3:54.0

Do you remember as a kid when your, when your father told you how life worked? Well, one out of three of your employees, don't.

4:04.0

This is according to fatherhood.org and the US Census Bureau, the US Census Bureau and fatherhood.org. One out of three people live in a home where the biological father is absent.

4:18.0

One out of three kids today, don't have a dad. Yep. Now according to the Fulton County Texas Department of Corrections, this is the Fulton County Texas Department of Corrections.

4:29.0

85% of inmates didn't have a dad. 85% of their inmates, which means if you don't have a father, you're 20 times more likely to go to jail.

4:41.0

And one out of three of your employees didn't have a dad. Another example. According to a study done by the Department of the United States Department of Justice, 70% of youth who are in in state institutions for crime, but they can't go to jail yet.

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