Smart Trust

Creating Prosperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-Trust World

by Stephen R. Covey , Greg Link

Number of pages: 320

Publisher: Free Press

BBB Library: CSR and NGO

ISBN: 9781451651454



About the Authors

Stephen R. Covey : Covey is an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational

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Greg Link : Greg is the co-founder of the Global Speed of Trust Practice,

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Editorial Review

Smart Trust has met the strict scrutiny of business leaders around the globe and is validated by research from multiple sources that confirms that high-trust organizations outperform low-trust organizations by nearly three times. Smart Trust shares findings that verify how enduring success, vitality, and happiness are directly related to the level of trust in our relationships—whether in our professional or personal lives.

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"Smart Trustis chock full of examples and stories drawn from a wide variety of people at all levels, locations and walks of life." American Express

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Wisdom to Share

In today’s networked world, trust has become the new currency¾the critical competency for individuals, teams, organizations and even countries; and "smart trust" is the means by which all these can enjoy greater prosperity, energy, and joy in all dimensions of life.

A company’s reputation, its ability to partner and collaborate with others, its capacity to innovate, its effectiveness in engaging its people, its ability to attract and retain great people the speed at which it can execute¾all these dimensions of success are powerfully affected by trust.

When people talk about low-trust relationships, you see tension, sorrow, pain, and sometimes even fear.

When people talk about low-trust relationships, you see tension, sorrow, pain, and sometimes even fear.

When they talk about high-trust relationships, everything changes¾eyes light up, smiles appear, people become animated, and conversation focuses on the positive outcomes that bring happiness.

Declaring your intent is signaling your behavior to others. It is based on the principles of purpose and intention. The opposite is to fail to declare intent or to simply assume your intent is clear.

Extending Smart Trust to other people inspires people, increases trust, and generates reciprocity.

Smart Trust is a splendid torch that we want to make burn as brightly as possible, not only in handing it on to future generations, but also in engaging the current generation to achieve better results, feel stronger passion, and experience greater happiness.

Assess your own credibility. Can you trust yourself? Are you giving others a person, a leader, a team, a company, a country they can trust?

To choose to believe in trust is to enhance our natural propensity to trust.

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