Leadership and Trust: the Trustworthy Leader

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A thought worth sharing with you all: Amy Lyman, author of ‘ writes: Trustworthy leaders…understand the complexity of bringing together a group of human beings to pursue extraordinary accomplishments. They are masters at guiding, directing, encouraging, and challenging people to contribute their best, in part because they ask the same of themselves. Trustworthy leaders know that their relationships with others throughout the organization are key to their success—however success is measured. To me, however, a leader by definition must be trustworthy! (...) Read more? Sign up for free

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		Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa
	Trust and Leadership I do not agree that trustworthiness is, "by definition", a requirement of leadership. How many crooked politicians and business people have been charged and convicted of fraud, corruption and other crimes that, for their successful commission, rely on the breach of trust between them and their victims? Does that mean they are not leaders?

		Tom Wilson, HR Consultant, United States
	Leadership: Epistemology V/ Ideology Leadership originates in epistemology, which is to (...)

		Emmanuel Duru, Analyst, Nigeria
	The Trustworthy Leader I agree that a leader must be trusted, but sometim (...)

		Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa
	Epistemology, Trust and Leadership In light of the comments already made on this subj (...)

		Tom Wilson, HR Consultant, United States
	Trust and the Player @: Speaking only for myself, as a leader, the elem (...)

		Borje Vickberg, Sweden
	Trust and Leadership To be a leader you need to have followers. Leaders (...)

		Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan
	Why Trust is So Important in Leadership @: Beauty does indeed lie in the ‘eyes of the beho (...)

		Tom Wilson, HR Consultant, United States
	Trust, Leadership and Esprit de Corps @: I agree. Peter Vaiil wrote Management is Perfor (...)

		Borje Vickberg, Sweden
	Lack of Trust and Leadership @: Wise words. Lack of trust, honesty and integrit (...)

		Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan
	The Turnaround of Bullying Leaders @: The five fingers are all unequal – we will alwa (...)

		Tom Wilson, HR Consultant, United States
	Patience and Persistence in the Turn Around @: It is important to remember that the lack of g (...)

		Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan
	Patience & Persistence Along the Road @: Entirely true, Tom! Patient persistence and per (...)

		Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa
	Loyalty, Trust and Esprit de Corps and Leadership There seems to be three inter-related concepts tha (...)

		Tom Wilson, HR Consultant, United States
	Trust is the Essence of Leadership @: Andrew, it is hard to be as far wrong as you ma (...)