We Started with Respect: A Novel

Gallup surveys show that two out of three employees are disengaged to some degree-loudly proclaiming that culture is an essential component to business success.

In this novel, newly appointed medical company president Jason Bailey inherits a disconnected enterprise that’s struggling from a lack of leadership, alignment, and direction. All business metrics point down, placing the company’s future at a tipping point.

With a product breakthrough in the wings, Jason and a revamped senior leadership group must establish the foundational culture and systems if they are to successfully develop and sustain the new offering and turn this struggling company around. Will it be in time? Will it be enough?

From forming through storming to norming and performing, follow Jason and his team as they balance business and people-centric principles in this comprehensive blueprint for success.

Pages: 298
Pub Date: 07-11-2023
Softcover: 20.95 9798888240335
Hardcover: 29.95 9798888240359

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"You'll be drawn in by the compelling story that unfolds and energized by the lessons it reveals. If you're serious about transforming your team, your department, your organization, let We Started with Respect be your guidebook to improving your leadership and the precious lives in your span of care!"

-Bob Chapman, CEO of Barry-Wehmiller, Author of Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, named no. 3 CEO in Inc. magazine
"In We Started with Respect, George Saiz shows what it really takes to lead with respect and how to create a high-functioning people-learning organization that delivers results through engaging its people. Through an engaging story of leadership and organizational transformation, readers follow the journey from a struggling to flourishing organization and can draw lessons to apply to their own practice. Let We Started with Respect be your blueprint for how to create the alignment, processes, and skills you need to create meaningful impact for yourself, your team, and your organization."

-Katie Anderson, Leadership and Learning Coach, Keynote Speaker, Lean Consultant, Japan Study Trip Leader, Author of Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: Lessons from Toyota Leader Isao Yoshino on a Lifetime of Continuous Learning
"Timing is everything! We Started with Respect delivers a front-row-seat journey to the best thinking on culture and leadership both team members and firms are starving for. The world has changed. Fulfillment, engagement, and creating value have become essentials for success. This book is a must-read to unlock the potential in any organization."

-Paul Eidenschink, Co-President and COO, Steffes LLC

George Saiz enjoys sharing leadership strategies from his experience as a medical device executive with Johnson & Johnson, Zimmer-Biomet, DJO Global, and MicroAire. Combined with the best practices he observed as president and CEO of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, he's convinced of the importance of including people in all business equations. As a writer, keynote speaker, and coach, he now promotes enterprise excellence through a people-centric culture to the next generation of business leaders.He resides in Carlsbad, California, with his wife and their latest addition, a goldendoodle puppy, and enjoys golfing and walks on the beach.

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