Trust & Mistrust: Radical Risk Strategies in Business Relationships - Hardcover

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About the Authors

Aidan Ward and John Smith are partners in Antelope Projects Ltd, a business risk management consultancy with a prime interest in authenticity and trust.

Aidan Ward has a background in large software projects and application architectures. For the last seven years he has run Antelope Projects, working within a network of distinguished specialists in many fields to bring out issues of trust and risk management in a proper context. Aidan is the author of many papers on the application of risk management insights in particular domains and of the Scimitar Risk Management System.

John Smith moved into retail systems from aircraft engineering, designing and implementing some of the earliest EPOS systems. He has successfully used Antelope’s SCIMITAR methodology in business projects in many parts of the world and in many cultures. Its adaptability and the ease with which it accommodates cultural context is a ceaseless source of wonder to him. John is a published author in his own genre, cliché fiction.

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In this book Aidan Ward and John Smith propose that the key to understanding and improving the potential for business success lies in the power of trust. By delving into the complex issue of how an organization operates they uncover how relationships between people have a direct link to value creation. Through the authors' discussion of the uncertainties and risks that face all business they demonstrate how the relationship between individuals needs to be actively developed in order to cope with and, capitalise upon, this environment. In essence you need to understand trust and see how it can work as a business model.

In today's business environment the ability to manage trust to support change adds up to the strategic resource in developing effectiveness and innovation. You don't need (and can't have) absolute control - you need to know who you need to trust to do better.

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In this book Aidan Ward and John Smith propose that the key to understanding and improving the potential for business success lies in the power of trust. By delving into the complex issue of how an organization operates they uncover how relationships between people have a direct link to value creation. Through the authors' discussion of the uncertainties and risks that face all business they demonstrate how the relationship between individuals needs to be actively developed in order to cope with, and capitalise upon, this environment. In essence we need to understand trust to see how it can work as a business model.

In today's business environment the ability to manage trust to support change adds up to the strategic resource in developing effectiveness and innovation. You don't need (and can't have) absolute control - you need to know who you need to trust to do better.