Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace: Building Effective Relationships in Your Organization, Second edition

This book confronts us with bad news first: Betrayals happen in the workplace, and unfortunately, they will continue to happen. They cause slowdowns; they cause mistrust; they disrupt a customer- or client-centered focus and create infighting. The good news is that quickly recentering your trust, though not blind trust, can overcome these shortcomings. This book can help readers to become more trustful employees in the workplace.

This book is known as "the book" for workplace betrayal issues. And what worker hasn't been betrayed in the workplace? It starts with becoming a more trustworthy and trustful person yourself.

The main issue this book leaves unexplained is how to lead other through this process. What do you do with people who are show more habitual untrusting people? Though this book offers little to answer that question, the authors have gained my trust to explore their other books for answers about this topic.

Though we often think of emotions and relationships as being out of the workplace, they bind the social fabric of any team. Understanding their dynamics, as this book helps us, will help us become more effective workers and leaders. This book's reputation as the go-to resource has been upheld in my reading, and I commend it to others to learn to trust more readily and more wisely. show less