Create a Trusting Community
Community is an apt metaphor for organizations. Seasoned Fortune 500 executive Jim Autry explained that the workplace has become an important neighborhood for today's mobile and distributed workforce:
By invoking the metaphor of community, we imply that we in business are bound by a fellowship of endeavor in which we commit to mutual goals, in which we contribute to the best of our abilities, in which each contribution is recognized and credited, in which there is a forum for all voices to be heard, in which our success contributes to the success of the common enterprise and to the success of others, in which we can disagree and hold differing viewpoints without withdrawing from the community, in which we are free ...
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