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Why is trust an essential and scuttled component?
To get a group to collaborate on a project, there are three solutions:
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either we demonstrate to everyone the relevance of the project
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either some of the members decide to trust a priori
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either we impose collaboration via hierarchical dependence or via constraint (company, army, repressive state)
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Demonstrating is long, if not impossible for the most complex projects, so trust is necessary for operational efficiency.
Imposing collaboration produces unhappiness and poor quality collaboration.
Obtaining trust is difficult, because it requires admitting your mistakes.
The world of work has developed the bad habit of dispensing with trust through the economic constraint of earning a living, which explains the ever-increasing pressure to put everyone to work, and the associated ideology of those who do not work. not are guilty lazy people.
The political world has gotten into the bad habit of preferring hard-line rhetoric, even if it means denying the obvious, so as not to recognize its errors, and is therefore gradually undermining confidence. This pays off in the short term at the electoral level, but has a devastating long-term effect which is currently not regulated. Hence a general loss of confidence which leads voters, and particularly young people who are not used to it, not to vote.
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See question 'Tell me how you make decisions, I'll tell you who you are' which details the variations in the mode of decision-making depending on the personality structure of the individual.