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Why is trust an essential and undermined component?

To get a group to collaborate on a project, there are three options:

Demonstrating is time-consuming, sometimes even impossible for the most complex projects; therefore, trust is essential for operational efficiency.

Enforcing collaboration causes discomfort and results in poor-quality collaboration.

Gaining trust is difficult because it implies acknowledging one's mistakes.The workplace has developed a bad habit of dispensing with trust through the economic constraint of earning a living. This explains the increasing pressure to put everyone to work and the ideology that equates not working with being guilty lazy people.The political world has adopted the bad habit of preferring an all-or-nothing rhetoric, even to the point of denying obvious truths, to avoid admitting its mistakes, and thus progressively undermines trust. This pays off in the short term electorally, but has a devastating long-term effect that is currently unregulated. Hence a general loss of trust, leading voters—particularly young people, who are not used to voting—to abstain from voting.

Dive deeper

See the question 'Tell me how you make decisions, and I'll tell you who you are', which details the variations in decision-making styles depending on an individual's personality structure.