A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about buildi...
The first job of a leader—at work or at home—is to inspire trust. It’s to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust...
Recently, as I was teaching this concept, a CFO—who deals with numbers all the time—came up to me and said, This is fascinating! I’ve always seen trust as a nice thing to have, but I never, ever, thou...
One thing to be careful of with regard to skills is what author Jim Collins calls the curse of competence. It’s the idea that sometimes we become good at doing something we’re not really talented in o...
It’s been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesn’t need any...
In a high-trust relationship, you can say the wrong thing, and people will still get your meaning. In a low-trust relationship, you can be very measured, even precise, and they’ll still misinterpret y...
FIRST WAVE: SELF TRUST The first wave, Self Trust, deals with the confidence we have in ourselves—in our ability to set and achieve goals, to keep commitments, to walk our talk—and also with our abili...
And it all boils down to two simple questions: 1) Do I trust myself? and 2) Am I someone others can trust? With regard to having trust in self, it often begins with the little things.
A person has integrity when there is no gap between intent and behavior…when he or she is whole, seamless, the same—inside and out. I call this congruence. And it is congruence—not compliance—that wil...
The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted. —MAHATMA GANDHI
What happens when we do this time after time? What’s the net result of repeated failure to make and keep commitments to ourselves? It hacks away at our self-confidence. Not only do we lose trust in ou...
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
Whether you’re on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can’t trust one another there’s going to be trouble.
For every thousand people hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the roots.
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