Nothing can undermine a relationship more completely than lack of trust. In business, politics, marriage, indeed in any significant relationship, trust is the essential precondition upon which all real success depends. But what, precisely, is trust? How can it be achieved and sustained? And, most importantly, how can it be regained once it has been broken? In Building Trust, Robert C. Solomon and Fernando Flores offer compelling answers to these questions. They argue that trust is not something that simply exists from the beginning, something we can assume or take for granted; that it is not a static quality, or some semi-mystical atmosphere or "social glue." Instead, they assert that trust is an emotional skill, an active and dynamic part of our lives that we build and sustain with our promises and commitments, our emotions and integrity. In looking closely at the effects of mistrust--from insidious office politics that can sabotage a company's efficiency, to national politics rife with cynicism, to marriages that must be protected by prenuptial agreement--Solomon and Flores demonstrate how to move from naïve trust that is easily shattered to an authentic trust that is sophisticated, reflective, and possible to renew. The key to creating such trust, they show, is communication, a willingness to bring an uncomfortable subject into the open where its processes can be analyzed, understood, and rationally negotiated. As the global economy makes us more and more reliant on "strangers," and as our political and personal relationships become more complex, Building Trust offers invaluable insight into a quality none of us can flourish without.

Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life

Self-Help

SOLOMON, ROBERT C.

Flores, Fernando

Relationships

Oxford University Press

In business, politics, marriage, indeed in any significant relationship, trust is the essential precondition upon which all real success depends. But what, precisely, is trust? How can it be achieved and sustained? And, most importantly, how can it be regained once it has been broken? In Building Trust, Robert C. Solomon and Fernando Flores offer compelling answers to these questions. They argue that trust is not something that simply exists from the beginning, something we can assume or take for granted; that it is not a static quality or "social glue." Instead, they assert that trust is an emotional skill, an active and dynamic part of our lives that we build and sustain with our promises and commitments, our emotions and integrity. In looking closely at the effects of mistrust, such as insidious office politics that can sabotage a company's efficiency, Solomon and Flores demonstrate how to move from naïve trust that is easily shattered to an authentic trust that is sophisticated, reflective, and possible to renew. As the global economy makes us more and more reliant on "strangers," and as our political and personal interactions become more complex, Building Trust offers invaluable insight into a vital aspect of human relationships.

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

This volume is a theoretical and practical approach to the design of computer technology.

Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design

Computers & Technology

Winograd, Terry

Computer Science

Addison-Wesley Professional

Argues that human beings are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture--that is when they are making history. In the context of this account, history refers to changes in the way we understand and deal with ourselves. Software. DLC: Social action.

Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity

Dreyfus, Hubert L.

Spinosa, Charles

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

MIT Press]

Argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture―that is, when they are making history.
Disclosing New Worlds calls for a recovery of a way of being that has always characterized human life at its best. The book argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture―that is, when they are making history. History-making, in this account, refers not to wars and transfers of political power, but to changes in the way we understand and deal with ourselves. The authors identify entrepreneurship, democratic action, and the creation of solidarity as the three major arenas in which people make history, and they focus on three prime methods of history-making―reconfiguration, cross-appropriation, and articulation.

Introduction to the Theory of Solid Surfaces (Cambridge Monographs on Physics)

First published in 1979, this is a self-contained account of the theory of surface physics. In drawing together many results only previously reported in research papers, the authors emphasise basic disciplines such as electrodynamics and electron gas theory and demonstrate their application to simple models. Connections between intuitive derivations and more rigourous formulations are explained and there is an extensive treatment of the general problem of matching at a surface as a mathematical formalism with a physical meaning. Commonly recurring concepts such as surface modes, Green functions and phase shifts link different parts of the book, so giving coherence to the theory as a whole. A good background in physics is assumed but no previous acquaintance with surface physics. Starting from first principles, the reader is led from elementary analysis to the level of current research literature. The book is thus suitable for postgraduate students, post-doctoral workers or anyone wanting a systematic introduction to the field.

Science & Math

Garcia-Moliner, Federico

Physics

Cambridge University Press

How do we create value for ourselves and others while at the same time participating in today’s free market economy? How do we produce results while at the same time developing relationships where we take care of each other in the process? Today, instead of productively and joyfully engaging with broad networks of people, we are increasingly stressed by our working relationships. With networked technology, disconnecting is becoming increasingly more difficult. In order to build productive and trusting relationships, we must learn skills that will enable us to build trust, coordinate our commitments more effectively, listen to each other and build networks of commitments for the sake of producing value for ourselves, for our families, for the organizations in which we participate, for our communities, and for our world as a whole. The essays in this collection offer a framework for developing more effective, productive relationships in the workplace or in any context where a person must coordinate with others to make something happen. The essays describe how to effectively make commitments that allow us to create something of value. Describing Flores’ network of commitments/conversations for action framework, a framework that has been cited in more than three thousand books, the author paints a vivid view of language as action rather than just words that transfer information from one place (the speaker) to another (the listener). When people engage in conversations, commitments are made, and spaces of possibilities are opened up. Therefore, the theme is of “instilling a culture of commitment” in our working relationships, allowing us to focus on what we are creating of value together rather than the ongoing stress of attempting to calculate tradeoffs of individual interests. Edited by Maria Flores Letelier, it was Maria’s mission to make available works that had rested as private papers in hard copy form only for twenty to thirty years. She selected and edited a group of essays and placed them in an effective order for the reader.

Conversations For Action and Collected Essays: Instilling a Culture of Commitment in Working Relationships

Skills

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

¿Cómo creamos valor para nosotros y para los demás mientras simultáneamente participamos en la actual economía de libre mercado? ¿Cómo producimos resultados mientras a la vez desarrollamos relaciones en que nos cuidamos los unos a los otros durante el proceso? Hoy, en vez de involucrarnos alegremente en amplias redes de personas, estamos cada vez más estresados en nuestras relaciones de trabajo. Con la tecnología en red, desconectarnos se hace cada vez más difícil. Debemos aprender habilidades que nos permitan construir confianza, coordinar nuestros compromisos de manera más efectiva, escucharnos y construir redes de compromisos con el objetivo de generar valor para nosotros, para nuestras familias, para las organizaciones en las cuales participamos, para nuestras comunidades, y para el mundo entero. Los ensayos de esta colección ofrecen un marco para desarrollar estas habilidades en el lugar de trabajo o en cualquier contexto donde una persona debe coordinarse con otras para hacer que algo suceda. Los ensayos describen cómo realizar compromisos efectivos que nos permitan producir algo de valor. Son versiones editadas de obras escritas por Fernando Flores en las organizaciones que él dirigió. Describiendo el marco de las redes de compromisos y conversaciones para la acción desarrollado por Flores –un marco que ha sido citado en más de tres mil libros–, el autor pinta una imagen viva del lenguaje como acción, demostrando que cuando las personas participan en conversaciones, existe la posibilidad de realizar o no realizar compromisos. Cuando se realizan compromisos, suceden cosas. Estos ensayos describen los elementos básicos para instaurar una cultura del compromisos en nuestras relaciones de trabajo, permitiéndonos concentrarnos en el valor que estamos creando juntos en vez del permanente estrés de vivir calculando intercambios basados en intereses individuales.

Conversaciones Para La Accion y Ensayos Seleccionados: Inculcando Una Cultura de Compromiso en Nuestras Relaciones de Trabajo (Spanish Edition)

Flores Letelier, Maria

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Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life

Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life

Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design

Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity

Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity

Introduction to the Theory of Solid Surfaces (Cambridge Monographs on Physics)

Introduction to the Theory of Solid Surfaces (Cambridge Monographs on Physics)

Conversations For Action and Collected Essays: Instilling a Culture of Commitment in Working Relationships

Conversaciones Para La Accion y Ensayos Seleccionados: Inculcando Una Cultura de Compromiso en Nuestras Relaciones de Trabajo (Spanish Edition)

Conversations For Action and Collected Essays: Instilling a Culture of Commitment in Working Relationships