Trusted Leadership: A Bibliography of Online Resources

Trust and Leadership

Trust: The Foundation of Leadership. Harvard Business School. Outlines three drivers of trust: authenticity, logic, empathy.

Building Trust: A Leader's Action Plan. Wharton @Work. Shows how warmth and competence allow leaders to win trust quickly.

Strengths-Based Leadership: Building Trust in Followers. Gallup. Shows how warmth and competence allow leaders to win trust quickly.

Building Trust as a Manager, Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM). Five keys to developing greater trust in you as a manager.

How to Build a Trust-and-Inspire Leadership Culture, Psychology Today. Shifting from command and control to trust-and-inspire leadership.

Trust, Psychology, and Human Behavior

The Hidden Cost of Distrust: What Leaders Can Learn from Everyday Life. Impact Society. Signals that leaders send as to whether they trust their people.

Trust and Executive Leadership

The Trust Imperative. EY Insights. How trust shapes transformation, digital adoption, and organizational change.

Trust, Teams, and Performance

Teams Going Virtual: Why Focusing on Trust Matters. Science for Work. Summary of research showing that virtual teams require more trust than traditional teams.