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Trust is like a glue that holds everything and everybody together. The
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number one role as a leader is to create and maintain optimal levels of trust. Trust is
the underlying issue is not only getting people on your side but having them stay there.
There are four ingredients’ leaders have that generate and sustain trust: 1. Constancy.

Whatever surprises leaders themselves may face; they don’t create any for the group.
Leaders are all of a piece; they stay the course. 2. Congruity. Leaders walk their talk.

In true leaders, there is no gap between the theories they espouse and the life they

practice. 3. Reliability. Leaders are there when it counts; they are ready to support their
co-workers in the moments that matter. 4. Integrity. Leaders honor their commitments

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and promises.
Mohandas Gandhi was trusted by the Indian people and he led the successful

campaign for India’s independence from British rule. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of
the most visible spokespeople and leader in the Civil Rights Movement and holding the

activism of nonviolent Gandhi and counteracted for blacks’ rights, labor rights, and
other civil rights. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela: the political leader was believed by

African and bring freedom to them to the independent country. Even Adolf Hitler

persuaded German by building trust in him and led the Nazi successfully to create
World War II. As the result, they believe in their leader and support heartily to shape it

from a dream into a reality. Trust makes unity and organization become stronger than

ever by united.

Strategies IV: The Deployment of Self through Positive Self-Regard

One of the Taoist stories mentioned that: When Yen Ho was about to take up

his duties as tutor to the heir of Ling, Duke of Wei, he went to Ch’u Po Yu for advice.
“I have to deal,” he said, “with a man of depraved and murderous disposition…How is

one to deal with a man of this sort?” “I am glad,” said Ch’u Po Yu, “that you asked this

45 Nigel, Cumberland, 100 Things Successful Leaders Do, (London: Clays,
Elcograf S.p.A., 2020), p. 38.

46 Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming A Leader, (New York: Perseus Books Group,
2009), p. 152.