Post by account_disabled on Dec 21, 2023 5:20:17 GMT 1
"Trust does not exclude control". That was the mantra of one of my first bosses. I was a salesman. I heard this phrase every month, at every sales meeting, and it didn't shock me. I haven't made it a personal maxim, but it has always remained in the back of my mind, even if it's not really my way of operating. I'm more of a trusting type, so I'd like to be able to do without control. I would like trust to exclude control. The subject recently came back to my attention via a totally crazy, atypical and surprising space: the EFFORST WhatsApp group . EFFORST (European Foundation FOR Sales Transformation) is an association created a few months ago by Frédéric Bascuñana. And Efforst's WhatsApp group is a UFO.
I've been a part of Efforst since the beginning and have seen the evolution of this group and its Email Data totally insane discussion thread. We go to bed with 0 messages and we have 70 the next morning when we wake up: sales, marketing, data, yellow vests, politics, French history... everything is there. It's a double-edged sword. When Frédéric convinces new members to join us, there are those who leave as soon as they arrive and those who, after an initial surprise, try to understand and end up getting involved and getting involved. Indeed, beyond the digressions inherent in each discussion, there is substance, value. Simply human. The subject of trust and control therefore came up recently in Efforst's WhatsApp discussion thread.
Rather against it: those who spoke indicated that trust and control are antithetical. So I dug into the subject and discovered on this occasion that this maxim is from Lenin. Right away, the original context is unappealing and confirms my natural desire to trust and, in an ideal world, not to have to control. On Google, for an exact query, there are a little less than 25,000 results and around 150 people each month who want to know more on the subject. As I wrote a few lines ago, I really wish that trust could exclude control. What is trust? “feeling of someone who trusts someone else entirely” (Larousse). What is control? “action of controlling something, someone, of checking their state or situation against a standard. Action, controlling something, a group.” (Larousse too).
I've been a part of Efforst since the beginning and have seen the evolution of this group and its Email Data totally insane discussion thread. We go to bed with 0 messages and we have 70 the next morning when we wake up: sales, marketing, data, yellow vests, politics, French history... everything is there. It's a double-edged sword. When Frédéric convinces new members to join us, there are those who leave as soon as they arrive and those who, after an initial surprise, try to understand and end up getting involved and getting involved. Indeed, beyond the digressions inherent in each discussion, there is substance, value. Simply human. The subject of trust and control therefore came up recently in Efforst's WhatsApp discussion thread.
Rather against it: those who spoke indicated that trust and control are antithetical. So I dug into the subject and discovered on this occasion that this maxim is from Lenin. Right away, the original context is unappealing and confirms my natural desire to trust and, in an ideal world, not to have to control. On Google, for an exact query, there are a little less than 25,000 results and around 150 people each month who want to know more on the subject. As I wrote a few lines ago, I really wish that trust could exclude control. What is trust? “feeling of someone who trusts someone else entirely” (Larousse). What is control? “action of controlling something, someone, of checking their state or situation against a standard. Action, controlling something, a group.” (Larousse too).