Book Titles

The Speed of Trust
The One Thing That Changes Everything

By Stephen Covey

Year Published: 2006
ISBN-13: 078-0-7432-9730-1
Categories: Leadership, Trust

177 Quotes Found

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The Speed of Trust:

It’s vital to listen, to understand first. Otherwise you may be acting on assumptions that are totally incorrect…

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The Speed of Trust:

So often, the problems people have, both at work and at home, come because they don’t really Listen First.

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The Speed of Trust:

If companies don’t do market research to determine the needs and preferences of consumers before they produce products, they don’t make money.

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The Speed of Trust:

…Listen First means to listen with more than your ears; it means to also listen with your eyes and your heart.

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The Speed of Trust:

…when you have a foundation of Self Trust, sometimes the best voice to listen to is your own inner voice.

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The Speed of Trust:

…when you make a commitment, you build hope; when you keep it, you build trust. – Roger Merrill

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The Speed of Trust:

…commitments to people at home are every bit as important – or even more important – thatn commitments to people at work.

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The Speed of Trust:

Extend[ing] Trust… will help you become a more trusting leader.

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The Speed of Trust:

…senior leaders are actually complicit in helping to produce their employees’ distrust. It becomes a vicious downward cycle: People tend to not trust people who don’t trust them.

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The Speed of Trust:

Companies should trust people to work at home. Commuting kills so much time and energy that could be spent creating. – Sir Richard Branson

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