{"id":3282,"date":"2016-10-16T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T14:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2016-10-16T10:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T14:05:56","slug":"state-of-trust-in-corporate-america-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"State of Trust in Corporate America 2016"},"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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Executive Summary of White Paper Recently Published <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>by Trust Across America-Trust Around the World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Building a trustworthy company will improve both its profitability and organizational sustainability. Supporting this statement is a growing body of evidence showing an increasing correlation between trustworthiness and superior financial performance. Our 2016 report attempts\u00a0to provide content and context to place trust in the center of more business conversations, to answer the following questions and dispel the myth that integrity and trust are \u201csoft\u201d skills.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why do trust and integrity matter?<\/li>\n<li>Can they be measured?<\/li>\n<li>Are they profitable?<\/li>\n<li>Which sectors are the most trustworthy?<\/li>\n<li>Is industry destiny?<\/li>\n<li>What are the costs of low trust and integrity and why do they matter as hard currencies?<\/li>\n<li>Which companies are some of the most trustworthy and why?<\/li>\n<li>How can companies become more trustworthy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Integrity and trust should start at the top and flow down through the organization. They are not CSR, compliance, HR or leadership \u201cprograms\u201d but rather an intentional holistic business strategy adopted by leadership and practiced daily. Vanishing are the days of low transparency, \u201cshort termism\u201d and maximization of shareholder value at the expense of other stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>As trust breaches continue to make the headlines across many major institutions and societies around the globe, organizations that choose integrity and trust as intentional strategies will continue to outperform their peers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who will find value in reading this paper?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business leaders<\/li>\n<li>Boards of Directors<\/li>\n<li>Associations<\/li>\n<li>Investors<\/li>\n<li>Communications and Investor Relations<\/li>\n<li>Corporate responsibility officers<\/li>\n<li>Regulators<\/li>\n<li>Politicians<\/li>\n<li>NGOs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/cgi-bin\/free-white-paper.cgi\">register here<\/a> to request access to the full paper.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara Brooks Kimmel<\/strong>\u00a0is the CEO and Cofounder of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/index.shtml\">Trust Across America-Trust Around the World<\/a>\u00a0whose mission is to help organizations build trust. Now in its seventh year, the program\u2019s proprietary FACTS\u00ae Framework ranks and measures the trustworthiness of over 1500 US public companies on five quantitative indicators of trust. Barbara also runs the world largest global <a href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/cgi-bin\/alliance.cgi\">Trust Alliance<\/a>, is the editor of the award winning\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/order.shtml\">TRUST INC.<\/a>\u00a0book series and a Managing Member at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factsinvestor.com\">FACTS\u00ae Asset Management<\/a>, a NJ registered investment advisor.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2016, Next Decade, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1233\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1233\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TrustInccover313-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Print\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/order.shtml\">trustacrossamerica.com\/order.shtml<\/a><\/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=3282&title=State of Trust in Corporate America 2016\" title=\"Share this on oknotizie\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=State of Trust in Corporate America 2016 &raquo; https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3282\" title=\"Share this on twitter\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3282&title=State of Trust in Corporate America 2016\" title=\"Share this on del.icio.us\"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As trust breaches continue to make the headlines across many major institutions and societies around the globe, organizations that choose integrity and trust as intentional strategies will continue to outperform their peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[394,397,415,390,409,400],"tags":[122,18,201,135,144,66,15,136,116,5,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282"}],"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=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3285,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}