Trust in the Balance: Building Successful Organizations on Results, Integrity, and Concern

Under today′s stressful, rapidly shifting conditions, trust is more elusive––and more essential––than ever. A solid foundation of trust best enables high–performance companies and teams to adapt to changing circumstances and to deliver hard business results.Using examples from Hewlett–Packard, AlliedSignal, Motorola, GE, and Continental, consultant Robert Bruce Shaw explains why trust is a critical business issue for leaders, illustrates how it is won or lost, and details pragmatic action steps for building and sustaining trust across the organization.

Spis treści:
Part One: Trust: A Foundation for Organizational Success.
1. The Power of Trust in a Changing World.
2. Defining Trust: The Basics.
Part Two: The Imperatives of Trust: Results, Integrity, Concern.
3. Achieving Business Results.
4. Acting With Integrity.
5. Demonstrating Concern.
Part Three: Creating Trust–Based Organizations.
6. Building Trust Through Leadership.
7. Building Trust Through Organizational Structure.
8. Building Trust Through Organizational Culture.
Part Four: Trust Lost, Trust Regained.
9. Managing the Dilemmas of Trust.
10. Regaining Lost Trust.
11. Sustaining Trust into the Future.
Trust –– Building Resources.
Resource One: Organization Assessment Summary
Resource Two: Leadership Assessment Survey.

Nota biograficzna:
ROBERT BRUCE SHAW is a co–author of Organizational Architecture and Discontinuous Change and principal of Princeton Management Consulting Group. He lives in Washington Crossing, NJ.

Okładka tylna:
Under today′s stressful, rapidly shifting conditions, trust is more elusive––and more essential––than ever. A solid foundation of trust best enables high–performance companies and teams to adapt to changing circumstances and to deliver hard business results.Using examples from Hewlett–Packard, AlliedSignal, Motorola, GE, and Continental, consultant Robert Bruce Shaw explains why trust is a critical business issue for leaders, illustrates how it is won or lost, and details pragmatic action steps for building and sustaining trust across the organization.