About Trust: A Forever Work in Progress — The strength of a company’s Connections-based Trust is built upon a foundation of hierarchies that are oftentimes poorly understood, let alone thought out. This is the first of a series of essays on hierarchies, including some of the most important hierarchies that exist within every organization. As I wrote about…

About Trust: A Forever Work in Progress — At the core of every company is people. Everyone says this, so it reads trite, but anyone who has ever worked in a company knows this to be true. They also know that their level of life satisfaction, and their level of well-being, is fairly dependent upon their level of…

About Trust: A Forever Work in Progress — As I wrote about earlier in this series on Trust, Connections-Based Trust is all about the non-competency, non-character things that keep us connected in a healthy way. Today’s essay is the first of a series of deeper dives into each of the three dimensions of Trust. I’m starting this tour…

Trust: A Forever Work in Progress Welcome to Part Four of my series of essays on Trust (and the seventh related to Work). In my previous essays, I’ve endeavored to make compelling cases for the following ideas: The purpose of life is to make life better; The best way for…

Trust: A Forever Work in Progress I’ve been working on my book, The Gifts of Work, for over five years now. While the basic question that led me down the path to creating the book never changed (“What does it take to live a life where we become a better…

About Trust: A Forever Work in Progress Take even a short deep dive on the topic of trust and you’ll find thousands of related research papers, books, articles, and blogs. Dig into those materials and you’ll find trust is among the strongest indicators economists have to predict per capita income…

Part One: Introduction Ah trust…. As I wrote about in my prior essay “About Humans 101,” the trust thing has been an issue for humans for tens of thousands of years and, while I didn’t write about this specifically, I’m pretty sure research will corroborate the idea that trust has…

The Evolution of Work Tribes In Essay #1 on Work, I presented the case that only through Work (with a capital W — meaning work we love) can we hope to achieve self-esteem and thereafter, if we are fortunate, self-actualization. In Essay #2, I submitted the case that Work, like…

A Follow-up to “Welcome to the New Age of Work” In my first essay on Work (with a capital W), I presented the notion that work is essential for scaling Maslow’s pyramid of Needs, that work helps us understand what we like, what we’re good at doing, what kinds of people we enjoy working with, what matters to us, etc. …