Becoming an Invitational Leader. William W Purkey

(intelligent behavior, expertness, and knowledge). Trust is established and maintained through these interlocking human qualities, and each reflects Invitational Leadership in action.

      The leader who has established trust throughout his or her organization has come a long way toward ensuring the ultimate success of that organization. Indeed, trust by definition implies dependence on one another. We depend upon each other to tell the truth, as well as to work with each other’s best interests in mind. Our dependence on one another also allows for the kind of creativity that can only emerge during collaborative work — what motivational speaker and writer Stephen Covey, in The Nature of Leadership