Be a trustworthy human

The art of building trust and getting people to give you permission to be added to your list is one of the most important ones you can develop.

trust hierarchy to build relationships

Build trust with people before you need to have a difficult conversation with them.

There’s a hierarchy of steps that you can follow to build trust with anyone in your company. From the easiest to the hardest, these steps are:

Listen well

Show you care about them as a person

Seek to understand their point of view

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Trust, though, is an immensely socially useful technology. Human civilization has a fundamental limitation in that all humans can be trivially killed while sleeping. Huge portions of society’s efforts go toward establishing conditions where this trivial vulnerability virtually never gets exploited. God has, reportedly, closed all bug reports claimi... See more