{"id":1957,"date":"2015-03-04T12:32:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T17:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2015-03-04T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T17:32:18","slug":"trust-goops-lick-their-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"Trust Goops Lick their Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1005\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1005\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TAATAW_LOGO_H_color-tagline-300x122.jpg\" alt=\"TAA_R2_EDIT-CS3\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And that is why I&#8217;m glad that I am not a Goop, are you?&#8211; <\/span><\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gillette Burgess<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who remembers the childhood poem about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrapbook.com\/poems\/doc\/23.html\">The Goops<\/a>? It&#8217;s an oldie but goodie. Our family recited it in\u00a0lieu of a prayer at the dinner table, and now as an adult, I have relatively good table manners.\u00a0When we don&#8217;t teach our children &#8220;right from wrong&#8221; and ignore or overlook their\u00a0bad behavior, they carry it\u00a0into adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>Certain professions are reputed for low ethics- bankers, lawyers, PR firms, marketing consultants. The world of trust and leadership is not without its goops, perhaps because there are simply no barriers to entry. One need not have a college degree, any experience or table manners. Like me, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve met your fair share along the way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use this as a checklist to identify the next goop you meet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They grandstand about the importance of trust, integrity, values, ethics and leadership but are incapable of\u00a0walking it in their daily lives. They never learned how to use the soup spoon, let alone the knife and fork.<\/li>\n<li>They help themselves to the work of others without proper attribution, also known as plagiarism.<\/li>\n<li>They &#8220;borrow&#8221; intellectual property- \u00a0logos, pictures, articles and anything else they choose\u00a0with a sense of entitlement and no remorse.<\/li>\n<li>Their professional\u00a0&#8220;claims&#8221;\u00a0can&#8217;t be verified or checked.<\/li>\n<li>They are quick to blame but slow to accept responsibility.<\/li>\n<li>They say they are givers which makes them the worst kind of takers.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0keep their word.<\/li>\n<li>They speak hollow lingo- &#8220;listening&#8221; (this week), &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; (last week) and &#8220;trust&#8221; the week before.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Thank you&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8221; are not part of their vocabulary.<\/li>\n<li>They lick their plates \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do any of the above sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>Why do we have &#8220;high trust&#8221; expectations of\u00a0leaders in business, politics, media and sports? Why should we expect\u00a0these public figures to\u00a0be trustworthy when many of the people who claim to be the teachers and advisors to leaders on\u00a0ethics and trust are not?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s lunchtime.\u00a0I think I&#8217;ll go slurp some soup and\u00a0join the rest of the goops. On second thought, I think I&#8217;ll pass. I&#8217;d rather go hungry. How about you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><strong>Barbara Brooks Kimmel<\/strong>\u00a0is the Executive Director of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f81d8;\" href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/index.shtml\">Trust Across America-Trust Around the World<\/a>\u00a0whose mission is to help organizations build trust. She runs the world\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f81d8;\" href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/cgi-bin\/alliance.cgi\">largest membership program<\/a>\u00a0for those interested in learning more, and is also the editor of the award winning\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f81d8;\" href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/order.shtml\">TRUST INC.<\/a>\u00a0book series and the Executive Editor of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f81d8;\" href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/magazine.shtml\">TRUST! Magazine<\/a>. In 2012 Barbara was named \u201cOne of 25 Women Changing the World\u201d by Good Business International.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Our 2015 Poster,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f81d8;\" href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/poster.shtml\">52 Weeks of Activities to Increase Organizational Trust<\/a>\u00a0is available\u00a0to those who would like to support our work by making a small donation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1233\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1233\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1233 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TrustInccover313-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Print\" width=\"161\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1225\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1225\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1225 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ND-Trust-CEO-cvr-140602-ft-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"ND Trust CEO cvr 140602-ft\" width=\"162\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1826\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1826\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/914Trust-front-Cover-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"914Trust front Cover\" width=\"177\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Copyright 2015, Next Decade, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-best-social-bookmark\"><ul class=\"socials\"><li class=\"oknotizie\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oknotizie.virgilio.it\/post.html.php?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=1957&title=Trust Goops Lick their Fingers\" title=\"Share this on oknotizie\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Trust Goops Lick their Fingers &raquo; https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=1957\" title=\"Share this on twitter\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=1957&title=Trust Goops Lick their Fingers\" title=\"Share this on del.icio.us\"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s lunchtime. I think I&#8217;ll go slurp some soup and join the rest of the goops. On second thought, I&#8217;d rather go hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[122,18,15,136,7,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}