Chapter 3. RESPECT
"I am a valued member of this organization."
Not every suggestion I've made over the years has been implemented—but I've always felt like I was heard and I've always felt like I was empowered to share the feedback. Heck, my current position and the one before that are jobs that I basically created because I saw an essential issue that needed to be addressed. Both times, a department has grown up out of it and is still in operation.
Go to any company's website, and search for their "core values." You will likely see "respect" listed as one of them. And yet if you take a moment more and read through what a handful actually write about respect, you will quickly find a lot of variation in how management teams define ...
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