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Earning Trust

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Frank Parker

Published: October 7, 2008

A key quality of successful leadership is trust, but trust has to be earned.

This has been proven regardless of the place of the leader: home, nation, church or workplace.

One of the greatest books I have ever read on leadership (other than the Bible: Nehemiah, Ruth, David, Esther, Jesus, etc.) is The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, by John C. Maxwell, published by Thomas Nelson Publishers.

Number nine is "The Law of Magnetism: Who you are is who you attract," and number 11 is "The Law of the Inner Circle: A leader's potential is determined by those closest to him." The truthfulness of these statements/laws has been proven over centuries.

If I am not personally acquainted with a person to establish trust, then I must rely on what that person says, writes and acts as a basis for trust.

This being true as well as the aforementioned laws of leadership, I do not trust Barack Obama.

I do not trust him as our president to defend our country as commander-in-chief, to protect freedom of religion, to protect the unborn, to promote the free enterprise system and to uphold the founding documents of our country. You shall know a tree by its fruit.

Frank Parker
Sebring

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