Progress moves at the speed of trust If you want to move your business forward, trust isn’t an optional component. People need to know they can trust you, and you need to learn to trust those around you. Stephen Covey said it well: “Trust always affects two measurable outcomes: speed and cost. When trust goes down—in a relationship, on a team, in a company, in an industry, with a customer—speed decreases with it. Everything takes longer. Simultaneously, costs increase. Redundancy processes, with everyone checking up on everyone else, cost more.”
While struggling to interest scientists in my unconventional geological work I became increasingly aware of my need to build trust. What success I have gained in that effort was through a quote from Woody Allen: "80 percent of success is showing up."
For me this has been “Showing Up” in person at conferences while presenting talks and posters. After 15 years I am on a first name basis with many of the established thought leaders, even if the theory remains hard to digest because of its beyond-the-pale implications.
While struggling to interest scientists in my unconventional geological work I became increasingly aware of my need to build trust. What success I have gained in that effort was through a quote from Woody Allen: "80 percent of success is showing up."
For me this has been “Showing Up” in person at conferences while presenting talks and posters. After 15 years I am on a first name basis with many of the established thought leaders, even if the theory remains hard to digest because of its beyond-the-pale implications.