Most individuals deeply dislike too many options.

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Any business owner must be able to articulate growth potential very specifically long before growth accelerates to not only attain buy-in from employees but maintain it. The nature of business is as important as understanding the nature of humans, as the two will always coincide. In order to coexist with these parallel tracks, one must know that these two trains will always move in separate directions. Nothing is wrong with this opposition as long as it is fully understood that the alignment of business is far different than personal.

Any industry will always advocate for its profession over the integrity of the individual, so it’s important to teach employees ethics and compliance by role modeling must-have behaviors in day-to-day operations from a limited options point of view. This is important because, while most want a career that is limitless, they equally wish for the contradictory ask of limited choice. Too much choice creates confusion, and too much confusion creates unintended blind spots that cause the effect of not liking what one does for a living.

The majority do not love what they do, not because they don’t like what they do, but because their jobs are often designated with profit in mind, not process. This creates damaging outcomes when it comes to productivity because there is no clear articulation of a destination…