Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:02:18 -0500
From: Tom West
Subject: Huffington Post Slams Down Pittsboro Matters anti-Goodnight stance
Read the Huffington Post story about SAS CEO Jim Goodnight that was highlighted on the Chatlist –
What We Can Learn From The Man Who Runs The ‘World’s Happiest Company’ at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Love how the Huffington Post article just slams the Pittsboro Matters anti-Goodnight stance.
We find a man who created jobs and wealth for over 11,000 employees that he was not making any cuts in 2009. Today, SAS employs over 13,000 people. (How many jobs has the tiny PittsboroMatters group created?)
Jim Goodnight, co-founded the North Carolina-based business analytics software giant and has kept it privately held and debt-free, believes employees are the company’s greatest asset.
SAS has the lowest voluntary turnover rate of any company in the tech sector — a mere 3 percent a year with the industry average at times reaching a whopping 22 percent. (Apparently SAS employees don’t hate Goodnight the way Pittsboro Matters does.)
SAS gets more than 200 qualified applications for every job posting it makes. (How many job applicants has PittsboroMatters gotten for any of their proposed ventures? This small group of less than 100 people could barely get a few hundred people to sign their online petition)
Goodnight believes you should “treat people well, keep them challenged with interesting work, respect them and their contributions and they will do their best work for you.” (and PittsboroMatters has a problem with this?)
SAS is regularly voted the “world’s best place to work” (And all Pittsboro Matters keeps telling us Goodnight is bad, bad, bad.)
The town of Pittsboro board has a couple of options concerning Chatham Park in front of them in the next few weeks. They can partner with someone who has a proven and successful track record of producing jobs and wealth in the community OR they can hitch their wagon to a tired old group of white liberals spewing all sorts of hate and nonsense about one of the most successful businessmen in the area and in the world.
I respectfully ask that the Pittsboro Town board chose the team that promotes positive employment opportunities versus the team that sees conspiracies and attempted bribes behind every corner.
Team Goodnight clearly beats Team Starkweather in this case.