The first habit of building trustworthy leadership is choosing to deliver. As one CEO I interviewed put it, ‘Trustworthiness is doing what it says on the tin’. One of the behaviours I discuss in ‘The Trusted Executive’ that is critical to developing a reputation for delivery is to make sure you have an effective system for the management and delegation of tasks.
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The road to Rio has been four years of dedication, hard work and suffering for thousands of athletes around the world. In the UK, I have been supporting Team GB coaches from the worlds of rowing, diving and Paralympic target shooting as they have led teams of athletes hoping for gold medal glory in the coming weeks.
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‘If the heads of banks and multinationals support ‘remain’ it must be wrong for the rest of us’. Those eighteen words, quoted in a recent IEDP article, sum up the trust crisis that abruptly reared its ugly head in our recent EU referendum. The shock of looking in the collective mirror,
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In the popular cult film, ‘The Matrix’, our hero, Neo, is confronted with a stark choice. He can choose between living in the computer-fabricated world of the matrix (blue pill) or be unplugged from the matrix to wake up to painful reality of his true existence (red pill). His mentor,
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In the film ‘Steve Jobs’, there is a tense stand-off between Apple co-founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The scene is prior to an Apple product launch and Wozniak is berating Jobs in the middle of a theatre rehearsal. Frustrated by Jobs’ stubborn and arrogant nature, he throws his hands in the air,
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Our academic colleagues have been debating the definition of trust for over thirty years and they still haven’t reached a final agreement. However, all definitions of trust agree that it involves these three components:-
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‘After all this country has been through, how can he possibly pretend to lead Iceland’s resurrection from the financial crisis? He should go’. Such were the words of one of the 10,000 or so protestors who gathered outside the parliament building in Reykjavik this week to demand the resignation of Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson,
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In the beginning, business leaders relied upon intellectual ability and authority to drive profitability for the owners of a business. This model is breaking down because we live in a transparent world where nothing can be hidden. Deference to authority is collapsing with each successive generation and diverse, modern stakeholders are demanding a broader purpose for our business institutions.
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There’s a lot more to trust than delivering on your promises. This much became clear when this week I shared a quote from one of my CEO interviews on social media. The quote was ‘Trustworthiness is about doing what you say you are going to do’. Quickly, readers jumped in and said ‘Yes,
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Some weeks ago there was a lively debate on the Harvard Business Review LinkedIn group as to whether people felt kindness was an important attribute of leadership. The debate drew some varied reactions, including the following comments:-
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