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The Speed of Trust
- The One Thing that Changes Everything
- Narrated by: Stephen M. R. Covey
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers, Career Success
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Summary
For business leaders and public figures in any arena, The Speed of Trust offers an unprecedented and eminently practical look at exactly how trust functions in our every transaction and relationship - from the most personal to the broadest, most indirect interaction - and how to establish trust immediately so that you and your organization can forego the time - killing, bureaucratic check - and - balance processes so often deployed in lieu of actual trust.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-11-17
Valuable lessons, great examples...
We trust doctors to perform surgery on our hearts. But can they be trusted with babysitting our kids?
Stephen M.R. Covey explains the character and competence side of trust.
How we on personal, relationship, work, global marketplace and society depend - and unknowingly live by - the integrity, intent, capabilities and results of ourselves and others.
Easy to listen to - great to hear the authors voice!
Everybody, children, parents, presidents and janitors should recieve a 1 hour summary of these principles. And when ready to delve deeper, listen to/read this book.
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- Mark M
- 16-10-17
The book is great but the reader...
Reading should have been outsourced to a professional. The story and the content is really valuable and good!
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- Nneoma
- 06-07-20
lovely tips on building trust account.
I enjoyed reading every bit of it. Though tempted to stop but stories attached to theory kept roping me back and forth.
It was worth the time
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-01-20
Who's who of name-dropping and throw away quotes
What a frustrating book!
There is the promise of some really helpful insights but the delivery is a self-congratulatory back-slapping and name dropping that became too annoying to listen to.
It could also be hours shorter by getting to the point.
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- Edward Vella
- 10-07-19
It's a great book however audio quality is poor
There are severa instances where the audio is popping, I had to return it because of that.
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- Juan Fandino
- 07-11-18
Not what I expected
To be fair, I paid little attention and thought it was his father the author, none the less gave it a fair shot and listened to it until the end. Some few things can be rescued but then it is quite dull.
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- James
- 30-05-18
An excellent book.
This book is extremely well read and written. It speaks to something that is lacking in modern society.
Everyone would benefit by this book.
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- Albert
- 08-04-17
good read
i bought the audiobook however i felt the narrator could do better. but still lots of helpful insights into the topic of trust
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- Marty
- 23-12-10
Good Information, Hard to Listen to
Covey describes trust as being based on character and competence, where character is required and competence is situational. He uses financial terms as a concrete way to convey the cost of low trust and the benefit of high trust, describing the former as a trust tax and the latter as a trust dividend. The quickest way to make a withdrawal, he insists, is to violate a behavior of character, and the quickest way to make a deposit is to demonstrate a behavior of competence. He goes on to detail seven low trust taxes (redundancy, bureaucracy, politics, disengagement, turnover, churn, and fraud) and seven high trust dividends (increased value, accelerated growth, enhanced motivation, improved collaboration, stronger partnering, better execution, and heightened loyalty).
Covey also outlines what he characterizes as five waves of trust: self-trust, relationship trust, organizational trust, market trust, and societal trust. For each of these waves, he applies the concept of the four cores (integrity, intention, capabilities, and results) and the thirteen behaviors of high-trust leaders (talk straight, demonstrate respect, create transparency, right wrongs, show loyalty, deliver results, get better, confront reality, clarify expectations, practice accountability, listen first, keep commitments, and extend trust). The book includes a multitude of practical applications and pushes the reader to reflect on his or her own behavior.
Despite the fact that I have recommended this book, I do so with some caveats. Although I generally like it when an author reads the book, that was not the case for this one. Covey is a Harvard MBA, but I was astounded at the number of mispronunciations. His reading style has a hesitating tempo to it that comes across as patronizing, and his incessant family examples are over the top. He's a business man, not a family therapist. Those examples got very tiresome. Still, there are nuggets in the book.
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- Gary
- 10-07-10
Disappointed
I have listened to ~30 audible selections over the past year. Though I had read reviewers' comments concerning poor narration, I never thought a bad narrator could undermine the content of a book so greatly.
Mr. Covey is probably a really nice guy, but is simply a poor reader. The choppy, uneven flow made me wish I would have purchased the book rather than listening to it.
Recommendation: Please listen to the sample audio prior to purchasing. (I will from now on.)
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- Sara
- 27-07-17
Better at 1.3x Speed
This was a decent book and series of concepts, which I will have the opportunity to try. However, it screams for and would be better enjoyed with a better tempo. The pace made it difficult to stay engaged.
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- Trompe La Mort
- 19-09-16
Some good information in there, but is too long
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
This book has some great information. But it could be about 2/3rds shorter.A lot of information is repeated, and I couldnt' finish it.
7 people found this helpful
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- fredheat
- 30-04-17
Outstanding!
This book is a game changer! No other book, or person, has helped me realize that my approach to trust saw it as an illusion I was creating. I had no self trust, and then wondered why people didn't trust me. This bok helped me realize why I must have self -trust, and how I could get it... fast!
This bok will change your life... if you let it!
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- Tim
- 09-09-09
Very true!
This book was a pleasant surprise. There is much truth to what Covey says in this book, both about how trust changes everything and how to increase your "trust" quotient in life and in the office. It is also interesting how the principles in this book apply to virtually everything in life: Marriage, Church and Family, relationships between nations, etc..... This was recommended by my boss and I'm truly glad I read (or more accurately listened to ) it. Well worth your time!
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-02-21
Behavior
The reason things are told over and over is because our mindset sometimes is a period instead of comma which is continual journey.
Yes, we (humanity) have all kinds of family habits that make us related to our families, yet to give everyone a perspective and be diligent in our own core values: we because we are all in this together need to forgive and to trust; be brave and overcome the mountains of our lives. Thank you, Stephen, for the last hour of this audiobook: It gave me a release. -Jeremy
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- Mike A Ciccocioppo
- 13-06-20
not bad
I liked it enough, but 7 Habits was better in my opinion. this is actually written by the son.
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- Rh5150
- 20-11-20
most annoying voice I've ever heard!!!!
First off the voice reading this is like listening to nails on a chalk board. He has some sort of weird speech impediment, plus you can hear the spit in his mouth, its like he has cotton mouth the entire time.
secondly, the whole book talks non stop about how important trust is. save yourself the money and time....trust is important. Now send me your money.
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- Charles AHMADZADEH
- 27-02-20
The book is great, the narrator is terrible
The content of the book is absolutely great, game changer knowledge and mental models to acquire when focusing on building trust.
The narrator however, has a very stressful voice, always intense, as if he was about to pounce on you at any time yelling “TRUST TRUST TRUST! The 4 Cores! The 13 behaviors! Speed and cost!”
I had to take a break from this audiobook, I just couldn’t stand listening to him for more than a couple days in a row; even thought I was really enjoying the content
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