“Trust is the affirmative output of a disciplined, analytical decision process that measures and scores the suitability of the next actions taken by you, your team, your business, or your community.
Trust is the calculation of the probability of outcomes. In every interaction with the world, you are identifying, measuring, and figuring out the likelihoods. When the results are positive, you move ahead, from here to there.
When the results are negative, you rarely move ahead; you stay put or you find an alternate path.” Achieving Digital Trust -Page 49- Jeffrey Ritter
Why do you make a decision to utilize the capabilities of a specific tool, a talented person or to take action to invest in your own resources of time, money and cognition?
Trust exists.
Yet when the results of your trust remains negative beyond a defined time based rule-set, you must pivot and navigate to an alternative course, that has a higher likelihood of a positive set of outcomes.
This is the point in time, that a real-time awareness of your operating environment becomes absolutely vital.
Are your first indicators of negative outcomes latent, at the point when you make your next “Trust Decision” or to pivot?
To pivot and to navigate in your particular environment or Area of Responsibility (AOR), that will more rapidly increase the positive outcomes you seek.
How much time will pass, until you or your organization realizes, that the course you are on, has not produced the consistency of favorable results your allies require?
- Seconds.
- Minutes.
- Hours.
- Days.
- Weeks.
- Months.
- Years.
- Decades.
How forgiving is the environment you are operating in?
Will your operating environment allow for continuous negative results, for more than a few seconds or even minutes? Or will you allow it, for a few weeks, months or longer?
Success and the “Trust Decisions” process is fueled by information. Continuous information. It is a rules-based exercise.
What are the rules on your Playing Field, Air Field, Battle Field or within your “Silicon and Software”operating environment?
The tolerance of “how much time you will allow to pass,” is vital to your continuous positive achievement and your creation of new found wealth.
The “Trust Decision” is Rules-based. It is Fueled by information. If the information about the target does not conform or is ignored, then a trusted environment will not be attained.
“Instead, trust (or the absence of trust) is and always has been the resulting sum of a rules-based, information-fueled calculation.” Achieving Digital Trust -Page 52- Jeffrey Ritter
