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From Control to Trust: How Corporate Culture Innovation Determines Success

KO YONG-CHUL Reporter / Updated : 2025-07-02 17:44:39
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If a company has achieved success, innovation, and profitability, the next step lies not in numbers but in culture. Many companies, including those in Paraguay, have achieved impressive results in efficiency, profitability, and market share. They have invested in technology, nurtured talent, and overcome crises, securing a respected position in their industry. However, an invisible barrier hinders their evolution: an organizational culture still entangled in control.

In the initial growth phases, a hierarchical, rigid, and norm- and structure-centric control model was essential. However, once a company reaches a certain level of maturity, maintaining this paradigm becomes a limitation rather than a strength. Today's most respected and resilient companies are not necessarily the largest or most technologically advanced. They are the ones that have fostered a culture of trust. In these companies, employees are empowered to make decisions, make mistakes, innovate, collaborate, and communicate transparently.

Trust is never naivety. It signifies conscious leadership, clear principles, and consistency between words and actions. A culture of trust unleashes talent, accelerates execution, and builds loyalty both internally and externally. Transforming culture means changing the way we work and relate to one another. We must abandon the automatic habits of control, such as endless meetings, unnecessary bureaucracy, fear of making mistakes, and the compulsion to control every detail.

The true bottleneck for companies proficient in processes and strategies is cultural. If trust is not activated, talent becomes frustrated, innovation stagnates, and opportunities are lost. Without cultural transformation, there can be no leadership transformation. Leaders must shift from directing people to empowering them, from controlling tasks to facilitating context, and from demanding results to building meaning.

Trust-based leadership does not mean abandoning discipline or goals. It means adding new layers of humanity, purpose, and listening. Trust-based leadership is not softer; it is deeper. Building a culture of trust is not merely a kind gesture; it is a strategic decision. Because in an environment where everything is changing – technology, talent, consumers, climate – the only element that can sustain an organization is its culture.

Companies that embrace this change do more than just grow; they inspire. In Paraguay, the element of trust, which secures legitimacy in the relationship between government and citizens, must be recreated and integrated. Similarly, in businesses, establishing and maintaining these human and social values is crucial.

Today, in addition to the necessary technological changes and innovations, we must add the culture of trust, that is, the way of being and acting. Trust stems from honesty, competence, and transparency. We always talk about these categories, but systematically embracing and internalizing this challenge is the unavoidable task today. This is essential for companies and the nation as a whole to grow, move towards the necessary sustainability, and progress exponentially.

It has already been proven that progress is possible through interdisciplinary collaboration, teamwork, and the sharing of ideas, knowledge, and will. This, of course, is under the condition that a culture of trust prevails and is earned every day. Our society must live or recreate a culture of trust.

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