Covey chose Minneapolis/St. Paul to first preview his new book based on his experience of the progressive nature of local business leaders attending his presentation here last year.
The SPEED of Trust will be published by leading New York publisher Simon & Schuster in October. The SPEED of Trust will be a simultaneous worldwide English language publication with Simon & Schuster UK and Australia.
He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center where he led the strategy that propelled his father's book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits, to one of the two most influential business books of the 20th century, according to CEO Magazine. As CEO, Covey nearly doubled company revenues to over $110 million and increased profits by 12 times.
Covey will tell Minnesota business leaders that the ability to establish, grow, restore and extend trust is the key leadership competency of the Flat World economy. Covey approaches leadership from the pragmatic perspective he gained as CEO and engages leaders at all levels in issues grounded in the work at hand, not on theoretical models.
He contends that there is nothing as fast as the speed of trust. There is nothing as profitable as the economics of trust. There is nothing as relevant as the pervasive impact of trust.
Covey has identified 13 behaviors common to high trust leaders throughout the world. Learning and practicing these behaviors, he asserts, allows leaders to avoid trust taxes and gain trust dividends. Research shows that high trust organizations outperform low trust firms by nearly 3 times according to a 2002 study by Watson Wyatt.
Minnesota boasts 14 of America's most admired companies; including, 3M, Target, Best Buy, St. Jude Medical, General Mills, Medtronic, and others, according to Fortune magazine. Covey says this respected annual survey is a strong indicator of market trust and is an outgrowth of organizational trust.
He will speak at the Bloomington Marriott, Wednesday, May 24th from 8:30 a. m. to 11:30 a. m. See information at www.CoveyLink.com/live.
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