Thursday, 11 August 2011

Trust too much

Do you?  You should.  It makes business very pleasurable.  But of course I am using a single word for a variety that you should bring to the business table.  Integrity, honesty, dedication, openness and, well you get the gist.  And when applying such ‘words’, do them to a fault.  The point?  When in business, whether you are dealing with your clients, your suppliers, your staff, when you bring trust to the table, you will evoke trust from the other.  Tell someone why you want those terms, why you can’t deliver in the proposed time frame, why you have doubled their wages (lol) and so on.

However, trust does not give you an excuse for poor business practices.  It doesn’t mean you can just wait for money to arrive or you don’t have employment contracts or miss service delivery expectations.  Trust implies openness, trust means good faith, trust means negotiating a situation to the benefit of both parties and then as best practice dictates, you enshrine such trust in contract.

Now I said trust to a fault.  If it is underpinned with best practice, there isn’t much fault other than you might just discover a little about yourself.  Ready for that?  Go ahead, trust my day.

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