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Control, Trust and Meatballs
If you do not set an example of openness, you will not be trusted; if you’re not trusted, you won’t have credibility; if you don’t have credibility, you will not have influence; and if you don’t have influence, you’ll be a leader in title only.
Lee Cockerell1
One question that I have wrestled with a lot is the balance between control and trust in others. Our world shows greater suspicion and more control amongst other things as a consequence of terrorists which attack innocent people in countries at peace. I have a feeling that even Swedish society goes towards more and more control rather than trust. In government, it is about internal controls, the potential to follow up and accountability. Sveriges kommuner ...