Trust & leaders: warmth or strength?

From beCause » Blog Sun Nov 16 2014, 15:02:39

by beCause Global Associate Barbara Brooks Kimmel, founder Trust Across America-Trust Around the World™  -- There are several frameworks and models of trustworthy leadership. Some describe the "three C'S" of Character, Competence and Consistency, while another substitutes "consistency" for compassion. Randy Conley, the Vice President of Client Services & Trust Practice Leader for The Ken Blanchard Companies, and one of our Alliance members, employs the ABCDs as a model (Able, Believable, Connected, Dependable.) At Trust Across America we like to say that trustworthy leaders are VIPS's (Values, Integrity and Promises kept.)  Yesterday a colleague shared this Harvard Business Review article discussing the work of behavioral science researchers at Princeton (Amy Cuddy and Susan Fiske) and Lawrence University's Peter Glick. Simply, the... more

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