
Have you heard this line lately in business corporate circles: It is only a matter of trust? The line contains
a few words but a wealth of meaning. It simply refers to the fact that without trust, the business world
would come to a standstill. It is trust that lubricates the wheels of business. Even more so, the trust that
must exist between employee and employer.
When employees fail to trust their CEO, the company will suffer in terms of transmission breakdown,
high attrition rates and wasted creativity and innovation. In the long run, it will lose out to its more
robust competitors. After all, to paraphrase Thomas Watson: The great accomplishments of man have
resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
The good news is that...