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- Forbes – Measuring Trust using the Leadership Trust Index
- Metro – Why do employers still not trust people to work from home
- Forbes – Trust and Inspire: A Mantra for Modern Leadership
- European CEO – How trust, not power, is increasingly the currency of leadership
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- Daniel Gorosch – Managing Director, JLL, Sweden
- Jane Frost CBE – CEO, Market Research Society
- Jane Tozer OBE – Portfolio Non-Executive Director
- Geoff McDonald – Ex-Group Vice President, Unilever
- Ruslan Vasyutin – Chairman of the Board, Vienna Life Insurance

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Click on chapter headings to reveal key articles for each chapter of the book:
Introduction – 'You’re too nice, Blakey'
Chapter 1 – A Broken Model
- Davis, J H, Schoorman, F D and Donaldson, L (1997) Toward a stewardship theory of management, Academy of Management Review, 22 (1), pp 20-47
- Ghoshal, S (2005) Bad management theories are destroying good management practices, Academy of Management Learning & Education, 4 (1), pp 75-91
(available on various pay-per-view platforms) - Tate, W (2013) Managing leadership from a systemic perspective, Centre for Progressive Leadership, White Paper, January 2013
Chapter 2 – The Three Pillars that Inspire Trust
- Hurley, R F (2006) The decision to trust, Harvard Business Review, 84 (9), pp 55-62
- Mayer, R C, Davis, J H and Schoorman, F D (1995) An integrative model of organizational trust, Academy of Management Review, 20 (3), pp 709-34
- Burke, C S et al (2007) Trust in leadership: A multi-level review and integration, The Leadership Quarterly, 18 (6), pp 606-32
Chapter 3 – Pillar 1: Habits of Ability
- Cohen, D (2002) Viruses, deadwood, keepers and stars, Workplace News,
- 11 Baddeley, A (1994) The magical number seven: Still magic after all these years? Psychological Review, 101 (2), pp 353-6
Chapter 4 – Pillar 2: Habits of Integrity
- Hall, D, James, D and Marsden, N (2012) Marginal gains: Olympic lessons in high performance for organizations, HR Bulletin: Research and Practice, 7 (2), pp 9-13
- Collins, J (2001) Level 5 leadership: The triumph of humility and fierce resolve, Harvard Business Review, 79 (1), pp 67-76 (Exec Summary - full article available to HBR subscribers)
- Sandell, S (2015) You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Can this be true? Huffington Post, 21 October
Chapter 5 – Pillar 3: Habits of Benevolence
- Kawasaki, G (2015) The art of evangelism, Harvard Business Review, 93 (5), pp 108-11
- Wilner J (2012) What is Your Courage Quotient? (based on Biswas-Diener, R (2012) The Courage Quotient: How science can make you braver, Wiley, Chichester)
- Guy, K and Guy, N (2003) The fast cure for phobia and trauma: Evidence that it works, Human Givens Journal, 9 (4), pp 31-5
Chapter 6 – Cracks in the Pillars
- Kwoh, L (2013) When the CEO burns out, The Wall Street Journal, 7 May
- Linley, P A and Joseph, S (2004) Positive change following trauma and adversity: A review, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 17 (1), pp 11-21
- Kübler-Ross, E (2009) On Death and Dying: What the dying have to teach doctors, nurses, clergy and their own families, Taylor & Francis
Chapter 7 – Organisational Foundations
Conclusion – 'Well done, Blakey'

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