Career progression depends on a CEO's internal trust score, not titles
Shaan Puri · Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media. · Mar 15, 2025 · at 6:59
Entrepreneur and podcaster Shaan Puri discusses his 'Triangle of Talent' framework and how leadership evaluates employee autonomy and competence.
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“So the thing I realized was that basically for the CEO, they look at all their employees and there's just a trust score. And the trust score is basically like, can I trust you to be watching out for problems and identifying them yourself, or am I gonna have to deliver, like, the issues to you? I'm gonna have to be the one telling you, hey, we gotta solve this. And then if I, even if I did do that too, if I gave you the problem, do I trust that you'd be able to solve it? Do I trust that you could manage, like, a group of people in solving this, or can I only give you things that are, like, small bite size where you can alone do it, right? Do I have to give you the instructions on how to solve it, or could you figure it out, right? So everybody's got this trust score, and you want to be at a hundred percent, right? Like, You want to be at a hundred and those are the people ultimately they get the raises, they get the opportunities. When the new thing comes up, that's who you put on the project is the people you trust the most. And really like your trust score goes far beyond like your job title.”
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