FranklinCovey and Simon & Schuster Announce Update to Best-Selling Book, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything, Authored by Stephen M. R. Covey
Updated Edition Includes New Anecdotes, Examples, Data and Covey
Afterword: The Top 10
Today,
The Speed of Trust has been updated with new anecdotes, examples
and data that demonstrate not only the power and importance of
high-trust cultures, but how to systematically create them. Author
Since its original publication in 2006, there has been a dramatic shift
in how businesses operate, the services they provide and the culture
needed to perform in today’s collaborative world. Trust remains at the
crux of their strategic priorities, their employee relationships and
their influence in the community. At the
Covey leans in to these current trends and identifies trust as the
element needed to bridge the divide in the evolving global economy in
the new afterword of The Speed of Trust. He shares his Top 10
Stephen M. R. Covey’s Top 10
#1—We live in a world of declining trust: While trust does tend to ebb and flow in different industries, with different stakeholders, and in different societies, trust as a whole is increasingly under attack. As a result, we tend to become more cautious, more guarded, and more suspicious, perpetrating a vicious downward cycle of distrust and suspicion, where everyone feels justified in the process.
#2—Trust is the engine of the sharing economy: The sharing economy is beginning to complement—and in some cases—replace traditional forms of commerce and exchange, particularly through technology and digital trust. Industries that were once led primarily by specialists are being disrupted, overwhelmingly influenced and often even driven by average, everyday people.
#3—The nature of work today demands increasing collaboration: More and more teams are made up of people from different departments, buildings, and even countries. The collaboration that needs to take place in these diverse teams is vital to the type and quality of the work needed today. We certainly have technology tools for collaboration; the question is whether or not we have the trust.
#4—Change is the new normal in a disruptive world: Change is happening at an extraordinary and unprecedented rate—not only the pace of change, but also the amount of change and the type of change, which is commonly characterized by disruptive technologies. Unfortunately, the more perishable commodity in a high-change environment is trust. Paradoxically, trust also happens to be the only means by which people can generate the speed, commitment, and inspiration necessary to successfully navigate such rapidly shifting terrain.
#5—Our multigenerational workforce necessitates a different approach to how work gets done: Millennials—and those in the generation that follows—are effectively motivated, inspired, and engaged in different ways and by different things than the generations that came before them. The very nature of our workforce today puts an even greater premium on trust, and bridging generational gaps is one of the great leadership challenges of our time.
#6—Trust is the critical enabler of strategic initiatives: Consider some of the factors that become either driving or restraining forces to outstanding (or even adequate) organizational performance—factors such as engagement, execution, innovation, retention, recruitment, partnering, collaborating, teaming, productivity, safety, sales, mergers/acquisitions, and leading change. When you move the needle on trust, you move the needle in every one of these areas, and often that movement is disproportionately high. The data is irrefutable.
#7—Trust itself has become a key strategic initiative: Teams and organizations around the world are making trust—in and of itself and apart from being linked to other initiatives—the intentional focus of how they operate, both internally and externally. When you outperform your competitors, it’s clear that the market has greater trust, or confidence, in your organization, your products, or your services.
#8—“Culture” has reemerged as an imperative for organizational success: Organizations striving to build a winning, sustainable culture are coming to understand that if they don’t have—first and foremost—the foundation of a high-trust culture, all other efforts are insufficient. A high-trust culture is the starting point for any other sustainable cultural modifier.
#9—Yesterday’s style of management is insufficient for today’s leadership needs: Trying to operate in today’s world with a Command and Control style is like trying to play tennis with a golf club; the tool is completely ill-suited to the reality. The style of leadership that succeeds in today’s world is one of “Trust and Inspire”—trust the people you work with and inspire them to make a difference.
#10—Trust is the new currency of our world today: When most people think of currency, they typically think of money. But another kind of “currency” that’s even more important in creating sustained success in today’s global economy is the currency of trust. When people see a country, an organization, or even an individual as credible or deserving of trust, the trust dividends that accrue afford access, opportunity, and influence that money alone could never buy.
To download the complete afterword with the Top 10 reasons, go to http://www.speedoftrust.com/.
“Since the publishing of The Speed of Trust, the last 12 years
have solidified my original thinking that trust is the one thing that
changes everything,” said
The continued relevance of The Speed of Trust has placed it in
the pantheon of must-reads by many of today’s most respected CEOs. On
Glassdoor’s Top
CEOs of 2018 list, the #1 CEO,
Yuan stated to Glassdoor, “The big thing I learned from this book is that especially for start-up companies, speed is everything. You’re competing with the legacy companies and quite often you have to make tough, critical decisions… how to build a company at full speed at the same time without creating major problems is the challenge. But if trust is already there, it is very easy. If I trust you, I know your intentions are good. Even if you tell me, ‘Eric, this is a huge mistake. Can you fix that’ I trust you and I can make the fix.”
The Speed of Trust lays out a framework to establish, grow, extend and restore trust with key stakeholders including customers, business partners, investors or co-workers. Covey asserts that trust is more than a soft social virtue. It’s a hard-edged economic driver that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable and relationships more energizing.
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