Level Up Leadership
Trust in the workplace sometimes feels like it takes years to gain and seconds to lose. Changing workplace culture to facilitate trust is never an easy process, but it can be done, and it is certainly worth investing time and energy into. As we’ve outlined in previous posts, distrust is toxic in the workplace. It…
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Distrust has seeped into our lives at a cultural level. For evidence, simply turn on the news. You’ll find story after story about government misconduct, new things we need to be afraid of, and people who are out to get us. There’s a general sense in every aspect of life from child rearing to dating…
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In the dark ages of business, companies relied on fear as a motivator of performance. The intuition was that if employees felt that their jobs were constantly on the line, they would be frightened into doing their best possible work. As Dr. Edward Marshall points out in this great article, the reverse is actually true.…
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You should never judge a book by its cover. But we all do. And we do it in milliseconds. A recent study out of NYU showed test subjects pictures of faces for just 33 milliseconds. In that miniscule amount of time, different parts of the subject’s amygdala lit up, indicating that they either trusted the…
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