{"id":2732,"date":"2015-05-05T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2015-05-05T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:30:20","slug":"trust-advice-for-hillary-clinton-fellow-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=2732","title":{"rendered":"Trust Advice for Hillary Clinton &#038; Fellow Politicians"},"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>Yes, Hillary Clinton is &#8220;Dogged by Trust Issues&#8221; according to several recent polls including <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IJbQFI\">this one<\/a>\u00a0reported in Investor&#8217;s Daily. Hillary even has her own long-term personal &#8220;trustworthiness&#8221; graph as <a href=\"http:\/\/wapo.st\/1E43jb1\">published<\/a> in the Washington Post, and she\u00a0has\u00a0called\u00a0for a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1KJbkXj\">restoration of trust<\/a> among Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Trust, trust and more trust. One would be hard pressed not to agree that &#8220;trust&#8221; is a central theme in this presidential contestant&#8217;s campaign. But should it be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emphatically NO!<\/strong> Not in Hillary&#8217;s campaign, nor in any other politician&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>At a minimum starting point, trust requires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Character, competence and consistency. Many politicians, including Hillary, possess the competence component. It&#8217;s the other two that are usually lacking.<\/li>\n<li>Trust is built over time and in incremental steps. It&#8217;s not a campaign platform nor a short-term PR strategy.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, there is the question of whether one can separate professional\u00a0trustworthiness from personal. The answer is a simple &#8220;No.&#8221; Either one is &#8220;holistically&#8221; trustworthy or they are not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given these foundational prerequisites for trust, there is not a single politician that should ever utter the word &#8220;trust&#8221;, let alone call for its restoration or use it to get elected.<\/p>\n<p>But the most important reason for politicians to drop the word trust is found in our two-party system where the &#8220;trust&#8221; prerequisite for presidential candidates does not even exist. Democrats and Republicans alike will vote for who they view as the &#8220;best&#8221; candidate, regardless of how trustworthy they are, or claim to be. &#8220;Best&#8221; is defined not by level of trust, but rather by how the voter thinks the candidate will benefit him\/her the most, or how big a cut of the pie will come the voter&#8217;s\u00a0way.<\/p>\n<p>So my advice to Hillary and all her opponents would be to drop the word &#8220;trust&#8221; from all future speeches, articles and campaign platforms and focus on being politicians, what they actually &#8220;do&#8221; quite well. Be honest about who you are. Leave the word &#8220;trust&#8221; to those who have a genuine interest and &#8220;pure&#8221; motive to improve\u00a0it for the long-term betterment of society.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #444444;\">Barbara Brooks Kimmel<\/strong><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0is the Executive Director of\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #4f81d8;\" href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/index.shtml\">Trust Across America-Trust Around the World<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0whose mission is to help organizations build trust, and runs the world&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/cgi-bin\/alliance.cgi\">largest membership program<\/a>\u00a0for those interested in the subject. She\u00a0is also the editor of the award winning\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #4f81d8;\" href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/order.shtml\">TRUST INC.<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0book series and the Executive Editor of\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #4f81d8;\" href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/magazine.shtml\">TRUST! Magazine<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444;\">. In 2012 Barbara was named \u201cOne of 25 Women Changing the World\u201d by Good Business International.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Our annual poster,\u00a0<a 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>Did you know we have published 3 books in our award-winning\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/order.shtml\">TRUST Inc. series<\/a>. They are yours when you\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/cgi-bin\/alliance.cgi\">join our Alliance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2015, Next Decade, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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=2732&title=Trust Advice for Hillary Clinton &#038; Fellow Politicians\" title=\"Share this on oknotizie\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Trust Advice for Hillary Clinton &#038; Fellow Politicians &raquo; https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=2732\" title=\"Share this on twitter\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=2732&title=Trust Advice for Hillary Clinton &#038; Fellow Politicians\" title=\"Share this on del.icio.us\"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust, trust and more trust. One would be hard pressed not to agree that &#8220;trust&#8221; is a central theme in this presidential contestant&#8217;s campaign. 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