The Respect Revolution

The common theme of The Respect Revolution© is that when companies respect each employee and take steps to ensure that some respect mechanism is in place throughout the enterprise in a lasting way, good things start to happen, keep on happening and lead to corporate greatness.  Collectively, authors of the top dozen business books[1] demonstrate that ‘respect’ is the foundation on which all successful group endeavours thrive.  Hence, Bill Caswell terms it: The Respect Revolution.

First you must instill the simple ingredient called ‘respect’ in your enterprise.  Second, using respect, you must dig away at the backlog of hidden (as well as the obvious) problems.  (The thoroughbred with a gimpy leg cannot hope to win the derby unless that problem is resolved beforehand.) Third, with respect in place and the major problems successfully wrestled to the ground, the company can install whatever improvement systems it wants and they will probably work.  Without respect in place and without problems resolved, the improvement systems will not work as expected.

1. The baker's dozen:

Built to Last, J. Collins and J. Porras
Corporate Life Cycles, I Adizes
First, Break all the Rules, M. Buckingham and C. Coffman
Good to Great, J. Collins
In Search of Excellence, T. Peters
Let's get Results, not Excuses, J. Bleech and D. Mutchler
Managers, Not MBA's, H. Mintzberg
The Fifth Discipline, P. Senge
The Goal, E. Goldratt
The Transformation of Management, M. Davidson
What (Really) Works, W. Joyce, N. Nohria and B. Roberson
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? L. Gerstner
You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar, D. Sandler

 

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