The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey is a foundational leadership book that reframes trust from a "soft" social virtue into a hard, measurable economic driver. Covey argues that trust is the one thing that changes everything, directly impacting two key business variables: and cost . The Core Premise: The Economics of Trust
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When trust goes down, speed goes down and cost goes up. This is the . Think of a corporate merger where teams don't trust leadership. Decisions bottleneck, lawyers are over-hired, and integration takes years instead of months.