giving them unique, valuable insights you can't see from a management or executive level perspective.

If your staff feel like they are truly valued and respected, they'll generally want to return that respect with delivering to their best abilities.

Only when you've created such a connection will they open up to you and give valuable

feedback which you can use to improve the working methods in your factory.

The more humble we are, the more approachable we are, and thus the better our connection

with others leading to more, better opportunities.

Number 5. Beware the busyness of life. In the words of Socrates, beware the barrenness

of a busy life. In the late 5th century BC, when Socrates lived, most of the Athenian men

preferred fame, wealth, honors and political power to a life of labor. They always seem

to have a busy life, but not a happy one. By contrast, Socrates neither laboured to earn a living, nor

participated voluntarily in affairs of state. Rather, in spite of his popularity, he chose to remain

in poverty. He wasn't even interested in being considered a teacher. He believed it was more

important to teach people

to think by themselves than to fill their memories with new things that they may not even use.

Doing things just for money or for fame was not one of his interests as he understood

that living a life without a real purpose is an empty life. Following Socrates's

example, we should all be careful not to have a busy and empty life, but rather a meaningful

life. Nowadays, there are so many activities we can engage in, so many things to choose from.

If we don't know how to limit our desires for more money, more things, more fame, we risk

the possibility that we completely fill our time with activities, leaving no time to stop

and process, to digest everything going on in our life, to find the meaning and

make better considered decisions going forward.

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