2013: What are you reading at the moment?

[Kennah]

10. "Speed of Trust" by Stephen Covey

He's the son of the Stephen Covey who wrote "7 Habits of Highly Effective People".

Doing it as part of a Continuous Process Improvement book club at work. All too often, I find a lot of workplace process improvement initiatives to be utter horseshit because there is rarely managerial buy-in or follow through. This may be little different, but at least those of us in the book club seem to believe in doing things better, so the discussion is good.

I think he nails it in breaking down Trust into four core components:
- Integrity
- Intent
- Capability
- Results

Some of the quotes he uses in the book produce a visceral reaction in me, like Jack Welch. I don't trust that fuckhead for one second.

Covey also repeats some RW mantras about America being a society of whiners and victims. Born with a silver spoon, so I should not be surprised if he has 0.1 percent mentality.

Trust starts with oneself and radiates outward to relationships (personal or business), organizations, and society.