Last week while on holidays I saw a post on a LinkedIn group that caught my eye.  It was about women, family and  career success. What prompted my colleague Lisa Ryan to start the discussion was a comment made by former GM CEO Jack Welch in his keynote address at the annual SHRM (Society for Human Resources Management) [...]

I spend a lot of my time talking and writing about the relationship between power and respect at work. Disrespectful behaviors like harassment and bullying are power based behaviors. The choice to engage in these behaviors and how we respond to them is very much connected to power – how much we have and how [...]

I had a great example recently of how one word, a unconscious slip of the tongue, the use of a habitual phrase can unintentionally offend. I was traveling for work. I got off the plane and went to the rental car kiosk. The customer service agent got high marks for his pleasant, welcoming and efficient [...]

One of the things I discuss in my book Road to Respect is how bad behavior is often tolerated within workplaces. Excuses are made. “Oh that is just (whomever). That is just how she/he is”. When nothing is done to deal with workplace disrespect, everyone soon accepts it as “just the way it is around [...]

I was a panelist asked to choose the worst bosses from a list complied by eBossWatch. This site (www.ebosswatch.com) was launched by Asher Adelman in 2007 to help people avoid toxic workplaces. eBossWatch enables people to anonymously rate their current or former bosses using a respectable and focused evaluation form so that job-seekers can better [...]

Last month I featured online shoe retailer Zappos‘ unique corporate culture in my monthly blog post for RespectfulWorkplace.com as well as in Reflections on Respect, my monthly e-newsletter. I wrote about Zappos because it is a company that illustrates one of the key lessons in my book, Road to Respect: Path to Profit: that creating [...]