Respect for employees and customers is the foundation of lasting business success. When companies treat staff as valued individuals, that respect flows to customers, building trust and loyalty across any culture or market. Examples from Kuwait, Dubai, and France show how honoring human dignity creates sustainable outcomes.
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And this is the key of unlocking the success of our business and hopefully the businesses that you either are thinking about, working for, or a part of. And it's this, it's so basic. We all want the same thing. Break away the differences between what I just described— language, politics, the way people dress, their history. It doesn't matter. We all want the same thing. We want to be respected as employees. We want to be appreciated as customers. We want to feel dignified in the workplace, and who we are as people. And we want to go into a store and for that brief moment of whether we're buying a cup of coffee or whatever it might be, we want some value for our money. And the human condition of all of that between business and the consumer and everything, everything, everything else in between is the human condition of the human spirit. If you can exceed the expectations of your people, if they feel they're working in an enterprise or a company that values them as human beings and not as paychecks, values them as human beings and not a line item on the balance sheet, And they in turn can take that feeling of being respected and appreciated as an employee and share that with someone else, a paying customer. Whether it's in Kuwait or Dubai, or the opening of Starbucks France where people said it wouldn't be possible, it can work and it is sustainable. Because the human spirit has no language. And at a time in the world when there is such cynicism and a fracturing of trust, if you reach out and appreciate and respect another human being, it comes back to you.
