Building trust in business, politics, relationships, and life /

In Building Trust, Robert C. Solomon and Fernando Flores offer compelling answers to these questions. They argue that trust is not something that simply exists from the beginning, something we can assume or take for granted; that it is not a static quality or ʺsocial glue.ʺ Instead, they assert that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Solomon, Robert C.
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Flores, Fernando, 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. TRUSTING TRUST
  • Trust on Trial
  • Alternatives to Trust: Fear, Control, Power
  • Distrust: ʺParanoiaʺ and Cynicism
  • Basic Trust
  • Trusting Strangers: The Global Society
  • Talking about Trust
  • Building Trust
  • 2. UNDERSTANDING AND MISUNDERSTANDING TRUST
  • How We Misunderstand Trust
  • Simple Trust
  • Blind Trust
  • Trust and Reliance: The Mechanization of Trust
  • Whom Can You Trust?
  • Two Virtues: Trust and Trustworthiness
  • Conditional Trust
  • Beyond Competence
  • Trust as Medium: The Most Insidious Misunderstanding
  • 3. AUTHENTIC TRUST
  • From Simple Trust to Authentic Trust
  • Authentic Trust
  • Trust as Emotion
  • Trust as Mood
  • Trust as Background and as ʺMediumʺ
  • Self-Trust, Self-Confidence
  • Knowing Self-Trust
  • Emotional Self-Trust
  • Breaches and Betrayals of Trust
  • Trust, Hope, and Forgiveness
  • Authentic Trust and Leadership: Disclosing New Worlds
  • CONCLUSION: BUILDING AUTHENTIC TRUST.