Research Catalog

Title

Trust : twenty ways to build a better country / David Johnston.

Author

Johnston, David

Publication

• [Toronto] : Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

x, 218 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Canada's enduring success has been based on trust--trust in each other; in our businesses, organizations, and markets; and in our public institutions and the officials who run them. David Johnston--reflecting on seven decades of personal experiences including seven years as Governor General--identifies the 20 ways we can make ourselves, our organizations, and our institutions even more worthy of trust, and in doing so build a better Canada for coming generations and the world. This new book is in part a follow-up to The Idea of Canada, in that the author draws upon his own remarkable experience to illustrate where his strong convictions have come from. In this book, however, Johnston strikes notes that are more universally applicable than those in any of this earlier works. First, he speaks directly to the reader, offering practical advice about the attitudes, approaches, and habits that make a person trustworthy. Second, he offers compelling evidence that enduring community trust can be built with similarly simple techniques. Third, by drawing examples from Canadian and international experience, he shows how a whole nation can become trustworthy and, ultimately, trusted by its citizens, allies, trading partners and other societies. In short, Trust is a much needed manual for the repair of the one social quality on which all others are based.

Subjects

• Trust
• Responsibility
• Trust > Canada
• Government accountability
• PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
• Responsibility > Canada
• Reliability

Contents

Foreward by the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin -- Introduction: An invitation to trust -- Part 1: Make yourself worthy of trust. Never manipulate -- To thine own self be true -- Listen first -- Be consistent -- Do the right thing, not just the thing right -- Rise above the written rules -- Find some faith -- Follow the golden rule -- Part 2: Build trust around you. Show up, not off -- Act in the first-person plural -- Be a barn-raiser -- Know there is more than one right way -- Tell everyone the plan -- Depend on those around you -- Part 3: Create a trustworthy and trusted country. Recognize a present peril -- Invite others to dance -- Apologize -- Honour our teachers -- Be a knowledge diplomat -- Start now -- Acknowledgements -- About the author.

Call Number

JFD 18-4399

ISBN

• 9780771047152
• 0771047150

OCLC

1057232244

Author

Johnston, David, author.

Title

Trust : twenty ways to build a better country / David Johnston.

Publisher

[Toronto] : Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

Hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFD 18-4399