The Seven Rules Of Trust (master The Art Of Influence And Connection)

By (author) Wales, Jimmy
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Internet pioneer and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales shares his clear, actionable rules for building trust in community, leadership and life
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Influence has never been more important. What does it take to win people over and inspire them to believe in you?

When Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia over two decades ago, most people thought it was a joke. The idea of an online encyclopaedia that could be written and edited by anyone seemed laughable. Yet today, it is one of the most influential platforms in the world, trusted by millions across the globe.

Now, Wales distils everything he learned from beating the odds into seven actionable rules for work and everyday life. Master them, and you too can grow your influence, build stronger connections and achieve the extraordinary.

''This book was made for this moment'' - Adam Grant

''With this book, Jimmy is passing on the principles that drove Wikipedia''s success so that others can build meaningful projects of their own'' - Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn

''Trust is a feeling. We can''t "convince" someone to trust, they have to feel it... Thank you to Jimmy Wales for founding Wikipedia and now, for the first time, telling us how he did it!'' Simon Sinek

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Everything in our thrilling and chilling future depends on one increasingly diminishing human resource: trust. Jimmy Wales is in a better position than almost anyone to teach the world the most important lessons required for us to learn if we want to win trust back, in our own lives and out into the community and the wider world. He eloquently and convincingly demonstrates in this important – indeed vital – book that it can be done, and that it starts with us. Fascinating to read, intriguing to learn and wonderful to contemplate - The Seven Rules of Trust should be required reading everywhere
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This is an important book, which is both hopeful and practical. Using lessons from the astounding success of Wikipedia, it advises readers how to tackle the global crisis of trust. If only the whole world could look like Wikipedia!
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This is much more than the founder’s history of a ground-breaking online encyclopaedia. It is a vital reminder of the importance of fact as the basis of debate, and a passionate call to rediscover the art of reasonable dialogue. Where trust has been lost, Jimmy Wales offers routes to its rediscovery
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Wikipedia has become the most complete and successful encyclopaedia ever created... So far. Jimmy Wales argues beautifully that without passion and crazy ideas, very little gets done. Without trust, almost nothing gets done. Along with changing the way you think about the future in our information age, The Seven Rules of Trust is a joy. Read on
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Trust is a feeling. We can’t ‘convince’ someone to trust, they have to feel it. Sadly, we now live in a world in which it’s often hard to know who or what we can trust. Where some of the biggest online companies are trying to allow for public regulation of their content, only to significantly harm their trustworthiness, Wikipedia is THE exception. What does Wikipedia know that others don’t and how can more companies adopt their practices to make our digital world safer and, well, more trustworthy? Thank you to Jimmy Wales for founding Wikipedia and now, for the first time, telling us how he did it!
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Wikipedia is a remarkable invention. Powered by human trust, this once quixotic project thrived where so many others failed, becoming one of the greatest collections of knowledge in the world