Speaking Truth to Power: Help leaders to listen, and employees speak up

The leaders of businesses, governments and other major institutions throughout the developed world face a major challenge: how to rebuild trust between themselves and their key stakeholders. The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer makes for sobering reading, revealing the biggest-ever drop in public trust in business and political leaders: Trust in trust major U.K. institutions is at an historic low of 29 percent. For business leaders, it languishes at 33 percent, while CEO credibility is at an all-time low of 37 percent.