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Excellent; a must read for leadership.
Easy read; discusses intelligently trusting people and being accountable to others to increase teamwork and productivity. Recommend.
I received the book for free through Goodreads First Reads. My initial interest in it was not for myself....when I saw the book in the giveaway, I thought of my father-in-law and husband, who both enjoy Stephen Covey's books. When the book showed up in my mailbox, I decided to start the book the next day. Although I am in education, not business, I realized that many of the principles this book discusses can be applied in the business world, in the education world, and in life at home. The pre
It's a pure Covey book. I'm only lukewarm to his stuff. Much of the book says the same thing over and over again and much of it is common sense...walk the walk, talk the talk, you need to trust in yourself to get others to trust you...and on and on. It's a good book, not a great one. If you're a Covey fan, you'll like it.
The book was another good book filled with useful information. It is the second from these two leaders and I can recommend both with no issues. This book builds extremely well on the previous and compliments Covey’s fathers book as well. A must read for anyone who wishes to trust people in a better smarter way.
In my line of work (Talent Development), clients always ask me to recommend a Leadership book. This is what I suggest each time. There is no culture or relationship that can thrive without Trust.
I finished my reading of “Smart Trust.” When I first read “Speed of Trust” in 2006 I was profoundly impacted by the structure that was added to a relatively elusive topic. I keep a small paper with the thirteen behaviors of a High Trust Leader on my desk and refer to it often. “Smart Trust” seems like the natural follow up to all the HOW questions that were generated by “Speed of Trust.”The five Smart Trust actions that this book teaches make a clear outline of how to generate trust in a team, f...
I won this in a Goodreads Giveaway and was really happy to. I try to read as many business books as I can, although this book would really apply to a lot of areas of our lives. The writing, as expected from these two authors, was great but the ideas were even greater. Trust is such a tenuous thing, and it's hard to invest in things we can't see, but this book makes a great case for it! Highly recommended...
It is probably not fair to compare this book to the one that preceded it, but I just cannot give this one four stars when The Speed of Trust was such a life-changing revelation. I wanted the same lift, the same sense of epiphany, and am therefore disappointed. I was glad for an opportunity to spend more time thinking about the all-important subject of building and maintaining trusting relationships, and in fairness there was some solid new stuff in here. I have even used some of the new material...
AFTER MY OWN FAILURES (shuttering my national magazine at age 26) and my many personal ones: breakups, bankruptcy, divorce — and back again — I relate first-hand to the high costs (emotional and financial) of a breakdown of trust. But we forget that for people in the trenches facing massive failure, they face perhaps an even more debilitating blow. With the realization of our worst fears about the future and our place in it, then depression swept in and left me feeling defeated, tiny... impoten...
This follow-up to Stephen Covey's "The Speed of Trust" drills down into his idea of "Smart Trust", his alternative to distrust or blind faith.He gives example after example of how Smart Trust increases prosperity, energy and joy in your personal life and in your business. He points out that you don't need to get others to change, become trustworthy yourself and you will be a change agent. The book outlines five principles for building Smart Trust.Whether you're in business or not, read and apply...
I just won a copy from Goodreads. Looking forward to reading it. Thank you.
As with its predecessor, The Speed of Trust, this is a book to read once a month for a few years. Can you imagine a world where trust was the default starting point for any relationship, both personal and professional, instead of the current default of hatred and distrust we see played out nightly on the news?
This review was originally posted over at my website.I read this book for three reasons. First, I enjoy and learn from reading in the leadership/management development popular literature. Second, I had an interest in learning more about trust. Third, and most of all, I have benefited much from the author's dad's writing and hoped to get a feel for the son's work. Stephen R. Covey (as opposed to M. R.) wrote the classic Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, a book that has had a significant im...
I got this book for free through Goodreads' first reads.I'm not sure what I expected, but this book wasn't really it. I felt a lot like someone was trying to sell me something, which I didn't really like, although the premise totally makes sense. Assume that people are inherently good but still make logical decisions about how and how much to trust them. Good advice.I'm pretty sure I got an advance copy because they had the same trust equation twice, when it was supposed to be opposite, and a lo...
A great book to read, giving a good explanation and examples as well
Okay, so I agree with his premise. But I think that he doesn't pay enough attention to the behavioural evidence on how trust works and why it is necessary to how humans function. Also, this mostly felt like an attempt to refute critics of "The Speed of Trust", which I think is a better and more useful book.
The story-telling part is incorporates the entertaining element from fictional stories while the content itself is non-fictional. Lots of fun reading and enjoying the book while learning ideas from their perspectives.
I read this book as the monthly selection of the Credit Union Leaders Book Club group on LinkedIn.This is an expansion of the last chapter in the author’s prior book “The Speed of Trust.” It contains numerous examples in each chapter along with many great quotes and extensive notes at the end of the book.The first chapter deals with The Paradox. The authors raise some interesting issues in regards to a crisis of trust in the world and its overall impact using different examples and quotes. It al...
Smart Trust: Creating Prosperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-Trust World by Stephen M.R. Covey, Greg Link & Rebecca R. Merrill was chosen by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as one of the Top 30 Business Books of 2012.THE SOUNDVIEW REVIEW:There are times when the launch of a book coincides with current events in a way that makes it a touchstone for navigating a new era in business. The first decade of the new millennium saw the emergence of transparency as both a frequently used buzzword and, mo...