882. Trust is Cheaper Than You Think

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick · Aug 17, 2026 · 8m

Everybody in business can tell you about the time they got burned. The partner who walked, the hire who lied, the vendor who disappeared with a deposit. Those stories get told at dinner for years. What almost nobody can tell you is what suspicion is costing them the other three hundred and sixty four days of the year, because that number never shows up anywhere. It hides inside the extra approval layer, the meeting that exists only because nobody believes the update, and the work you quietly took back because it was faster to do it yourself. Brian makes the case that most of us have the math…