On March 24, 2015, Rodd Wagner released Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees As If They're Real People.   “People are not your greatest asset. They’re not yours, and they’re not assets.”1 They also aren’t FTEs (full-time equivalents), headcount, human capital, human resources, overhead, inventory, meatware, etc.2 “It is difficult to have the right relationship between a company and its people when the corporate function responsible for doing so goes by a euphemism.  You might as well call them widgets, flesh-and-blood widgets.”3   Homo economicus (Economic Man) is rational.  He thrives in a command and control environment of [...]