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Summary: Trust Me - Keys to building trust in people
Review: Wayne Hastings and Ron Potter have written an inspirational book that provides the key principles we all need to guide us in our personal and business lives. It is a book to be kept close at hand to keep our thinking and actions on the path of a principle based life. The real life stories and the opportunity provided to reflect after each chapter with thought provoking questions about ourselves and how we interact with others helps teach us how to be leaders others can trust.
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Summary: a must read for physicians, too
Review: When I started my career as a physician, I had no idea that managing my employees would be so much harder than caring for my patients. My medical training had prepared me to be a clinician and a healer, but I didn't have the slightest idea about how to be a leader. In Trust Me, Ron Potter and Wayne Hastings reveal the eight characteristics that every leader must have to earn the trust and support of his or her staff, team, or organization. Writing with compassion and wisdom, Potter and Hastings give readers the information and inspiration they need to develop these characteristics. I was relieved to learn that I didn't have to be ruthless, devious, or bossy to be a good boss. Using the techniques I learned in Trust Me, I find that I'm not only a better, leader, I'm also a better person. Great book!
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Summary: Review from Paul Tulenko, Ph.D.
Review: With all the political folderol we are subjected to these days I'd like to present a book on trust, one that could help us make decisions. A warning ... this book is designed to make you think; but then that's a necessary task for learning, isn't it? That said, the lessons taught in the 8 sections are flawlessly presented as workable tools for success. What kind of leader are you? What kind of leader would you want to work for? Exploring of the leadership traits of humility, development, commitment, focus, compassion, integrity, peacemaking, and endurance is well done. I especially like the way Wayne and Ron start sections with a comprehensive overview of the section title. For example, when talking about humility, the first thing we learn is that to be 'humble' means to be well grounded, a person who sticks to the basics, and is truthful in every aspect.
On page 226 there is a phrase that every parent, employer, and -- well -- everyone, should frame on their bathroom mirror: "If we do not let go, we make prisoners of ourselves." This is a well written book and it should be on your current reading shelf. I give it 4 1/2 stars. (Only the Bible and the Constitution get six.)
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