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Sort The Moves That Build Trust Versus Burn It
Differentiate trust-building moves from trust-burning moves in influence work.
trust-buckets marigold-callout check-bar Place each behavior in the bucket that best matches its likely effect over time. Builds reciprocity and trust Burns trust and raises resistance Send a narrowed artifact that cuts review time in half. Threaten escalation before naming the other side’s constraints. Give public credit to the partner who improved the plan. Assume silence means support and force the timeline through. Ask a skeptic for support conditions and use them to reshape the path. Add more slides when the real objection is workload.
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