Business leaders should invest in people, not only products — Observer MD

• October 02 2019
• http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business-observer/business-leaders-should-invest-in-people-not-only-products-observer-md_176178

“As business leaders we have an enormous responsibility to do good not just make a profit, but to be entrepreneurial, innovative, sensitive to the market, and invest not only in products but most importantly in our people,” according to Julian Rogers, managing director of the Jamaica Observer.

Rogers was speaking at the Adventist Laymen's Services and Industries (ASI) business expo held at the Jamaica Pegasus in New Kingston on Sunday, on the theme 'Breaking Out Of Your Walls: Aiding the Weak to Become Strong and the Strong to be Stronger'.

Said Rogers, “It is people who are at the heart of all our successful enterprises and we can use them as a barometer of what is good or bad about the society.”

In his short but poignant speech, the Bajan native defined himself as not just a man from the Caribbean, but a 'man of the Caribbean' and one whose love for Jamaica has deep roots, having pursued his education here in Jamaica, as one of the first students of the newly opened Carimac in the 1970s.

Rogers challenged all businesses to think in a new way of serving the nation and be cognisant of the new media and technological environment, no matter the type of business they may have.

Rogers aims to do his part in his role of managing director of the newspaper, by focusing on its mandate 'The Jamaica Observer: More Than a Newspaper', which will serve its staff, customers and a new and ever-evolving Jamaican audience.

He explained, “My task is to help an already dynamic newspaper, at the heart of dynamic nation, at the centre of a changing Caribbean, in the middle of profound technological shifts and economic uncertainties, to break out of the walls and become the newspaper that is more than a newspaper.”