Determined and Dependable CEOs Win the Day

David Brooks of the New York Times had this to say yesterday:
In other words, warm, flexible, team-oriented and empathetic people are less likely to thrive as C.E.O.’s. Organized, dogged, anal-retentive and slightly boring people are more likely to thrive.
These results are consistent with a lot of work that’s been done over the past few decades. [...]

Ask the Trust Doctor: How Do I Build Trust Quickly In an Interview?

One of our good friends recently asked us:
When thinking about the ROCC of trust – how do we help people interviewing us for new jobs to develop trust in that short amount of time?
Our reply:
Here’s one set of ways to develop the ROCC quickly:
Reliability:  of course show up early for the interview, and make sure [...]

Get the First Two Chapters of Trust is Everything Free!

We are still in the early stages of marketing our book , even though we published it last spring, simply because we’ve been busy doing our jobs as professors, raising our children, and other important activities.  We are currently looking for a literary agent and a mainstream publisher.  To get the word out further, we [...]

The ROCC of Trust at a Glance

Thanks to our good friends at the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarshiop at the Ross School of Business and Voices of the Staff at the University of Michigan, we now have a very handy handout summarizing the ROCC of Trust from our book, Trust is Everything:

To download a copy of the complete of the handout, [...]