Forget the Trust Fall. Here's What Actually Rebuilds Trust in an Organization.

Most leaders think trust is rebuilt through communication.

More meetings.
More updates.
More town halls.
More promises.

But trust doesn't return because leadership talks about it.

It returns when leadership does something costly, visible, and consistent enough that people start believing the words again.

When I inherited a team struggling with internal conflict, damaged relationships, and a supplier dispute headed toward legal action, my first instinct was to fix the strategy.

That was the wrong starting point.

I couldn't fix the strategy until I fixed the room.

This week's Leadership In Focus newsletter explores what actually rebuilds trust, including a lesson from Howard Schultz's decision to close 7,100 Starbucks stores and why trust is not a feeling.

It's a system.

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