Redefining: "Trust, but verify" is SO WRONG ... Trust and Verify
Channel: Paul Bruce
Date: 08/06/2021

The proverb "trust , but verify" might have worked for a time, but it's time to admit that it's not 1980s nuclear talks anymore and this phrase taken in business context is often an anti-pattern. The situation can be rectified, however, by adjusting it to "Trust AND Verify", where verification is built into what you do so that trust is easy to establish implicitly.