"Trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets."

This sentence, attributed to Sartre without ever being traced back to his work, nonetheless captures something very accurate about professional and personal life. I have seen teams take years to build a climate of trust, and lose it all in one badly run meeting, one ambiguous message, one decision made without explaining the why. I have lived it myself: you can be loyal for ten years to a client, a partner, a loved one, and weaken everything in a few minutes because you failed to keep your word on a detail that seemed minor. Since then, I distrust spectacular repairs after a breach of trust: what gets rebuilt is still drop by drop, never in a single gesture. The only real strategy is not to break it.