On any functioning team, you are trusted to do your job on day one. But one of your first jobs is to learn team customs and share the burdens of the team, and by doing that you earn not trust but true respect. Only with respect can you have influence.
That's the best one can manage when confined by the debilitating emotion of trust/distrust/respect/disrespect. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to rely on human intelligence? (It is a question I've been asking myself lately).
