The tax of mistrust (6/12)

How much of your organization's is being taxed right now by the absence of trust?

What would an increase in trust result in?

A decision reached in a single meeting, with everyone confident in the outcome? Meetings with clear purpose and outcome expectations, where the participants were either actively contributing or gaining from the insight – rather than having been invited to manage feelings? The risk log that genuinely raises concerns, without pointing fingers, blaming or becoming weaponized? (Raised Risks being preferable to Surprise Issues)

In a high-trust environment, what happens to the speed of decisions? To the quality of information flowing between people? To the willingness to raise possibilities for something new, or admit something isn't working?
Trust is part of the infrastructure of those high-performing environments.

And like any infrastructure, you notice it most when it's absent (or when you are fresh from an environment where it didn’t exist).

The greatest tax of low trust is the weight of operating without it, and the people who stop waiting for it to be built, leave.

What is low trust currently costing your organization?
What would it be worth to build it?