Employees people or objects

One of the most over used lines in business is, "our people are our best assets." It is catchy and it embrases a point of view. People are as important, no make that more important, than other less touchy feely assets unless you're in the plush toy business. It also slides you mentally into a single catagory. This slide may not work out as well as the writer of this quote intended. Seperating people and assets might help you in begining to think of people as sentient beings and not as objects to accomplish tasks.