After illustrating the global relevance of trust with his book The Speed of Trust by selling more than one million copies in 22 languages, Stephen M. R. Covey is back to illuminate the hidden power of trust to change lives and impact organizations. In Smart Trust, he and long-time business partner Greg Link share enlightening principles and anecdotes of people and organizations that are not only achieving unprecedented prosperity from high-trust relationships and cultures but-even more inspiring-also attaining elevated levels of energy and joy. Research from multiple sources confirms that high-trust organizations outperform low-trust organizations by nearly three times. High-trust people are more likely to get hired or promoted, get the best projects and bigger budgets, and are last to be laid off. With penetrating insights illuminated by their unique access to many of the world's most successful leaders and organizations, Smart Trust offers a breakthrough formula that makes trust a performance multiplier for leaders, teams, organizations, and even countries. You will discover why trust is fast becoming the most consequential life and leadership skill of our time-a career-critical competency required to navigate and compete in this perilous 21st-century interdependent, global economy.

This sea-changing book will forever shift your perspective as it reveals and validates, once and for all, the transformational power of trust. Reading and mastering Smart Trust will increase your probability of thriving in this increasingly unpredictable marketplace. Book jacket.