# Caring Organizations By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-01-31 It is rare in most organizations to find people who genuinely want the best for you. Somehow these individuals actually care about you beyond the HR and management directives of employee engagement and bullshit career development meant to keep you blind to alternatives. Enjoy and appreciate these rare moments, but also it is worthwhile to seek out organizations that might increase the odds that people actually care for one another. In my experience, smaller is better than larger, and slower is better than faster. Smaller organizations typically create the opportunity for closer bonds and reliance on each other. You can't help but see a person as a person in smaller organizations. But the risk is that it only takes one person to ruin it. Large organizations are massive factories where everyone is a number and replaceable. This is hardly the place where caring adds any value. Slower organizations are typically more mindful and intentional. They have a purpose that is beyond the quick buck. Organizations that move slower or have a longer time horizon typically know their value and how systems work. As such, caring becomes natural. Fast organizations make the most of the opportunities presented to them. Grow fast, die faster. They view the opportunity and people as time-bound and expendable. Caring gets in the way of capturing the opportunity of now. So, if you want to work at a place where you will be cared about as an individual, search for ones like these. Alternatively, maybe you be the one who cares for someone else. That is equally valuable and needed in times like these. #### Related Items [[Caring]] [[Organizational Analytics]] [[Solidarity]] [[Purpose]] [[Management]]