This week on Leading With Respect, I had the privilege of speaking with Stephen Bullock, President of Power Curbers Companies, a North Carolina–based manufacturer of concrete paving equipment operating in over 100 countries.

If most of my network lives in tech, Stephen represents something equally powerful: frontline leadership. Manufacturing floors. Safety risks. Heat. Heavy machinery. Generational employees. Acquisitions. Real people doing real work.

And what struck me most?

The fundamentals of respect don’t change — regardless of industry.