Peter Drucker Quotes

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

In a disaster you have to have speed. In order to have speed, you have to have trust. And in order to have trust, you have to have people organized and planning before the disaster.

You will succeed only if you first build trust. It's like wolves. They show each other their necks and don't bite.

Leaders must establish common purpose and build trust within an organization.

When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department, then the sky really is the limit. If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.

I want to take people out of their comfort zones and teach them to rely on their team-mates.

What you want to do is put people in a position where they feel connected enough to you that they're willing to collaborate with you; they're willing to show you the things that they were scared to tell you about before.

If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of Parliament, you will get chaos. But if you take 10,000 people who have never met before, they can co-operate and create amazing things.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members

The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.

Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from each other, the whole organization suffers. But when trust and cooperation thrive internally, we pull together and the organization grows stronger as a result.

Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved

When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.