The Respect Effect: Using the Science of Neuroleadership to Inspire a More Loyal and Productive Workplace

CHAPTER 6 Respect Starts with Awareness

A commitment to a respectful workplace becomes part of the fabric of an organization’s culture. The greatest leverage to shape and influence culture exists at the top of an organization. Individual contributors, supervisors, and midlevel managers pay careful attention to how their senior leaders act and behave. Then, depending on their own aspirations, one of two things happens. They either try to emulate the attitudes and behaviors they think will lead to their own success or they distance themselves from the leaders they don’t respect or whose behaviors they view as counterproductive. Either way, those at the top of the organization are always under the microscope. Because of this, having a clear and ...