If people don’t respect you, stop trying to win them over. Improve your competence. Speak less. Work more. Refuse to explain your standards. Show them through consistency and results. Practice by becoming useful—at your job, in conversations, during conflict. Make others feel your essence, nimbleness and nobility, without ever raising your voice.

In any case, people deserve to be in environments that bring out the softness in them as opposed to the survival in them.