But they also reflect the worldview of a veteran business executive whose workforce is heavily tilted toward the low-income end of the employment scale -- actually that's mostly the workforce of CKE's franchisees, who own and operate 92% of its restaurants.
And since 1989, he has served as founding chairman of the state Employment and Training Commission, which works with politicians, educators, labor leaders and corporate executives on workforce issues.
In place of robust debate and discussion among investors, executives, the workforce, and the community at large, the conversation seems to be taking place in different silos, with one group sitting around the boardroom table and another gathered at the kitchen table.
The chief executive added: "The workforce that we are recruiting for the Games come from different backgrounds.
You are the on-the-ground chief executive, building a workforce who carry out research and, later, missions on your behalf from your base, an oilrig stationed in the Seychelles.
It made 400 layoffs in India, and it has downsized elsewhere, too, with executive and other workforce departures in other parts of Asia, the closure of offices in Jordan and Hungary and confirmation that there may be yet more consolidation in the EMEA region.
Davies works with CEOs, executive teams and workforces in areas such as culture change, creating happy workplaces, staff engagement, communication and presentation skills, and executive coaching.
As a group they were somewhere between junior high school and junior executives in the workforce.
"For years, the Washington conversation about public education has all been about k-12, and increasing access to college," said Andy Van Kleunen, executive director of The Workforce Alliance, a national group of employers, unions, and education and training providers.
