ZEDUCATION

Last week we buried my Aunty Mele. At her funeral, my father stood up and did something no one in that Tongan church had ever heard before. What he did next, and what he said when the faifekau pulled him aside, taught me more about leading across generations than most books have in 300 pages.

You can be given a title. You can be given a team. But no one can give you trust. That has to be earned, one interaction at a time. In this post, I break down the three things that build trust as a leader — and the small habits that silently destroy it.