Cultivating Trust When it Doesn’t Exist

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust, or the absence of trust, has become a pervasive dysfunction in our personal lives, the workplace, and corporate culture. It is becoming more and more difficult to define trust. Once bitten, twice shy, we have increasingly become a population of the walking wounded as cynicism undermines our faith in others, our employers, the government, a higher power, and ourselves. Can you build trust if it doesn’t exist?