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George Shultz on Trust

April 1, 2021 by Kate Vitasek Leave a Comment

George Shultz in 2017 at the Marines Memorial Club in San Francisco by Christopher Michel via Flickr

These days trust in our compatriots and in our
institutions is what we need the most, but sadly, it seems like there is a lot less
of it. One person who believed deeply in the value of trust, George Shultz,
former Secretary of State and longtime government servant who died at age 101 in
February this year put it succinctly in an op-ed
piece
in the Washington Post in December 2010:

“Trust is the coin of the realm.”
When trust was in the room, whatever room that was – the family room, the
school room, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the
military room – good things happened.  When trust was not in the room,
good things did not happen.  Everything else is details.”

George Shultz
was the second longest serving Secretary of State in American history
(and former Dean of Chicago Business School with a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT).
 He wrote the Washington Post
piece on his 100th Birthday (December 20, 2020).

Shultz also said:

Often in my career, I saw that genuine empathy is
essential in establishing solid, trusting relationships. In 1973, when I was
treasury secretary, I attended a wreath-laying ceremony at a World War II
memorial in Leningrad with the Soviet foreign trade minister, 
Nikolai
Patolichev
. As we walked, Patolichev, a tough old guy, described the
staggering death toll in the Battle of Leningrad. Tears streamed down his face,
and his interpreter was sobbing. When we were about to leave, I said to
Patolichev, “I, too, fought in World War II and had friends killed beside me.”
Looking out over the cemetery, I added, “After all, these were the soldiers who
defeated Hitler.” Facing the cemetery, I raised my best Marine salute, and
Patolichev thanked me for the show of respect. Later on, to my surprise, I
found that I had earned the trust of Soviet leaders as a result of this visit. 

We need more trust in all of our rooms.

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