From the course: How to Train Your Brain For Happiness

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Collective trust improves creativity, innovation, and the bottom line

Collective trust improves creativity, innovation, and the bottom line

From the course: How to Train Your Brain For Happiness

Collective trust improves creativity, innovation, and the bottom line

- One of my favorite quotes is by Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman at Google said, "In a networked world, trust is the most important currency". I love that quote because it really underscores what you've just been learning about trust in relationship to psychological safety. Another statistic that I find very interesting regarding the corporate world is that nearly 50% of CEOs believe that the lack of trust hampers or in some way harms their business. So this really is very crucial to understand how we need to enhance this culture of comfort, whether it's on an individual basis or a culture of fostering comfort in the workplace, it really begins to advance the notion of psychological safety, which begins to enhance trust. Having greater trust in the workplace brings about innovation, resilience, and ultimately improves your bottom line. The primal brain's need for safety and security and stability is so fundamental…

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