Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change

by Marc Benioff

For a leader, the most difficult of all is knowing when it’s appropriate to trust your own judgment, even when no one else around agrees with you.

But when you start valuing innovation over trust, then you’re really in hot water; you’ll be the frog luxuriating in warm water and unable to react when it comes to a boil.

A great product that your company builds can be like a mighty oak. It can provide everyone who planted it with a pleasing patch of shade to camp under for years. Values like trust may not make for dramatic earnings charts and they may never become the tallest trees. They are more like hundreds of small acorns you bury in the ground in the hope that they’ll become saplings. If I’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that if you nurture them, those saplings eventually grow up together. There’s not a single tree on earth that’s sturdier than a forest.