Creating and Sustaining Positive Organizations

– By Schon Beechler

I spent part of last week in Montreal with a remarkable group of not-for-profit leaders from all over the world. One of the themes that flowed through the week was the role of creating and sustaining relationships and the importance of trust. I’ve talked about trust many times in sessions I teach on leadership and motivation but last week, listening to the experiences and wisdom of this group of leaders, I had something of an epiphany: Being able to trust our leaders is so important to us because somewhere, deep down inside, all of us are at least a little bit afraid. (more…)