<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A trustworthy partnership makes weakness... > A trustworthy partnership makes weakness discussable before weakness becomes failure. The human lesson is honesty; the primatological lesson is that revealing vulnerability is safest where reciprocity, reputation, and coalition make exploitation expensive. Build the conditions in which truth has allies. **Source:** [[livestreams/Intimacy, Trust, and the Human Foundations of Business - Workbook|Intimacy, Trust, and the Human Foundations of Business]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A trustworthy partnership makes weakness discussable before weakness becomes failure. The human lesson is honesty; the primatological lesson is that revealing vulnerability is safest where reciprocity, reputation, and coalition make exploitation expensive. Build the conditions in which truth has allies.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-trustworthy-partnership-makes-conditions-truth-allies ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->