Respect

How to be more respectful and how to encourage others to treat you more respectfully In Respect: How to Change the World One Interaction at a Time, veteran public relations executive Robert Dilenschneider delivers an insightful and original discussion of how to cultivate respectfulness in every facet of your life. You’ll learn how to embody and encourage respectful behavior and speech among work colleagues, family, friends, and others. You’ll learn about how respectfulness has life-changing consequences for all who practice it and why it’s within reach for us all. You’ll also discover why it’s so sorely needed in an increasingly fragmented society and how it can transform our interactions for the better. Readers will also find: Strategies for transcending the inane and unimportant and creating meaning in your life Tools and paths to improve your self-respect, develop respectfulness, and encourage others to treat you with respect Techniques to begin mending some of the fences that appear irreparably damaged by increasing societal incivility Perfect for managers, executives, directors, founders, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders, Respect is an essential guide to navigating a society, marketplace, and environment that seems increasingly prone to disrespect and rudeness, and how to help make it better.

Preface xi Chapter 1 A Call for Respectfulness 1 Chapter 2 Is Respectfulness Truly Possible in the Age of Retribution? 19 Chapter 3 What’s in It for Me? 37 Chapter 4 Start with Self-Respect 53 Chapter 5 The Top Five Qualities of Respectfulness 71 Chapter 6 Respectfulness at Work 89 Chapter 7 Respectfulness in Family and Personal Relationships 107 Chapter 8 Respectfulness in Civic Institutions 125 Chapter 9 Transforming Society 143 Notes 161 Acknowledgments 169 About the Author 171 Index 173