Share I was relieved when President Biden told his incoming staff, “If you’re ever working with me and I hear you treating another colleague with disrespect, talking down to someone, I will fire you on the spot. . . . Everybody is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity.” If only more CEOs took a strong stance on appropriate behavior. Everybody is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity, but the effectiveness of zero-tolerance policies is worth a discussion. First, in my experience most organizations aren’t following their core values or their harassment prevention policy, so this added layer of zero tolerance is a big pill for most of them to swallow. I suspect for many that it would be a promise the organization just can’t keep.