Business Ethics and Self-Orientation
Self-orientation has a lot to say about ethics and strategy.
Charles H. Green is founder and CEO of Trusted Advisor Associates LLC; read more about Charlie at http://trustedadvisor.com/cgreen/You can follow him on twitter @CharlesHGreen
Self-orientation has a lot to say about ethics and strategy.
The best presenters draw on a variety of skills
Marketing’s attempt to keep “on-message” can sabotage good sales.
Trust and politics may be fundamentally incompatible.
Sometimes it’s right to talk about who’s not at the wedding.
Communication can be a less is more kind of a thing.
September 2007 carnival of trust
Trust in credit businesses, like all networks, is personal at root.
Mapping social networks identifies powerful trust factors
Larry Craig’s plight gives insight to how society defines trust.
Part I of this blog described how over-emphasizing the trust-building factors in the Trust Equation without balancing your self-orientation can actually hurt your trustworthiness. It also identified many internal and external triggers that might increase self-orientation. In this post, we explore specific actions you can take to avoid over-playing your strengths. The Goldilocks Effect In […]
Playing to our strengths can be seductive. We all want to feel we are presenting our best selves, and that naturally leads us to emphasize those things at which we excel. It’s often how we define our professional roles, our careers, even ourselves. Too Much of a Good Thing Some modern psychometric tools are built […]