One of my bosses, one of Kwela’s two owners, Russ, came to
my choir concert the other Saturday night.
Afterwards I introduced him to a good friend of mine who loves that he
is a huge supporter of Sea Shepherd.
As they were chatting, she remarked to him how cool she
thinks it is that her and I can be in my kitchen making brownies and when my
phone rings, I flip into ‘Kwela Corp’
mode and conduct business for 10 min’s while the batter awaits.
Russ laughed and then parlayed that the most non-business
setting he took a client call in was on the water in a kayak.
It really struck me how the telecommute model that Kwela
employs requires a huge amount of trust – on all our parts, certainly, but
especially on the parts of the owners.
If one can make progress toward better conditions
through employing more enlightened or liberal ideas, have Russ and Nic reached
enlightenment because they trust us all so implicitly?
