trust tagged posts
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1. No news is not good news
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence 
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The longer leaders wait to tell the truth the deeper hole they will have to dig out of when they start. As human beings we are hard wired to constantly asses our environment for signs of threat.
We are not unlike the members of a baboon tribe who look towards the “alpha” every twenty to thirty seconds.
People tend to focus their attention up the hierarchy and in the absence of positive feedback imagine the worst. When we are under stress this tendency for trepidation is even greater.
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Innovation, Can there be Trust without Transparency?
December 15, 2021
Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Green Solutions, Peer Powered Performance -
Despite endless exhortation of organizational innovation only 9% of U.S. companies are considered innovative. The problem is not an absence of talent but an undermining of trust. Innovation requires risk, failure is a fact and fear keeps most close to the warm fires of familiarity. The initiative to improve is successfully smothered by systems steeped in secrecy, committed to control and failing fabulously to do anything even remotely revolutionary.
Most efforts for organizational improvem...
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