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Whom can you trust? It's not an easy question to answer, yet it couldn't be more important to try. Hook up with the wrong crowd, and there goes a career-or worse. As scholar Linda Stroh argues, trust is a prerequisite for effective management, and it contributes directly to personal successs.
To find out how to tell the 'good guys' from the 'bad guys', Stroh interviewed over three hundred people. The result is a compendium of lively stories, lessons learned in the trenches, and practical tools and principles.
Readers will learn how to identify the trustworthy at work and in their personal lives - giving their careers a boost.
Having trustworthy people around us makes organisational life much easier and less stressful. Yet, since ancient times, people have pondered the ussue of trust. To what degree do trusting relationshops impact our performance at work? What are the consequences of misplaced trust? Must trust be unconditional?
Taking these questions out of the realm of the philosophers, Stroh draws from her extensive research to highlight common themes and the hard-won lessons learned from experience. She then distills interviewees' thoughts and experiences into practical tools for assessing trustworthiness - including your own - and applying these tools in a variety of situations.
Integrating insights from management and psychology, Stroh shows readers how to pay attention to red flags in relationships and ultimately develop a network of trustworthy people that will help them succeed in business and beyond.
Among other things, the book covers:
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The devastation that results when we trust too much
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Why we need to "mistrust" as well as trust
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How to work with people we know are untrustworthy
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Who deserves unconditional trust
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When to give someone a second chance
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