I stole a metaphor that I love: the Trust Battery. I first heard it from… | Molly Graham | 20 comments
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I stole a metaphor that I love: the Trust Battery. I first heard it from… | Molly Graham | 20 comments
Trust is so countercultural that it needs to be defended and reaffirmed every time a problem arises.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
It’s difficult to give and gain trust across a distance. It’s also difficult to pick up nuance, confidence, certain kinds of irony and sarcasm, intent, strength of conviction, hopelessness and helplessness, energy level, and deviousness.
Steve McMenamin • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior (Dorset House eBooks)
Among the senior leaders I’ve worked with, I’ve seen folks cause far more harm applying this advice too literally than by ignoring it. Leading effective and collaborative teams requires a nuanced approach to trust.
Will Larson • Inspection and the limits of trust.
For without trust in a technology or platform, how can we be expected to commit? When the stewards of our systems don’t feel fully invested, how can we be expected to fully back them?
Craig Mod • As We May Read
Consider a 2 x 2 matrix. On one axis you have good, high trust people and then you have low trust people. On the other axis you have low alignment structure with poorly set rules, and then a high alignment structure where the rules are well set.
Good, high trust people with low alignment structure is basically anarchy. The closest to this that succe... See more
Good, high trust people with low alignment structure is basically anarchy. The closest to this that succe... See more
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 6 Notes Essay
“I’m going to trust you, before you trust me.” Being an Illuminator is a way of being with other people, a style of presence, an ethical ideal.