CHAPTER 6Reducing Lies in the Workplace

ONE OF MY MOST FREQUENTLY REQUESTED SEMINAR TOPICS today deals with the power of collaborative leadership. Why? Because there is a perception shared by more and more business executives that if they want their organizations to continue to thrive in the global marketplace, they must replace traditional, top-down, command-and-control leadership structures with more-inclusive, “silo-busting” networks to tap the collective wisdom, experience, and creativity of the entire workforce.

The key to making that essential shift is knowledge sharing, and the key to knowledge sharing is trust—which brings me back to the subject of this book: lying. As you already know, trust and lying cannot coexist.

Trust is the belief ...

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