Aristotle, Maister, and the Fat Smoker
Review of David Maister’s new book Strategy and the Fat Smoker
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Review of David Maister’s new book Strategy and the Fat Smoker
The extensive use of money to incentivize desired behavior has a serious bad consequence; people stop doing things for their own sake, and just do them for money.
Banks using sleazy, slickster sales tactics are unaware that they are actually losing shareholder value by annoying customers.
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The pharma industry knows it has a trust problem, but making negative headlines in major business publications means its response strategy has to be judged a failure.
Trust betrayed has a way of lingering, even getting stronger over time.
People lie and cheat; what makes them do less of each is not sanctions, but values.
Candidate John McCain demonstrates the power of transparency in selling.
The generation gap about treatment of intellectual property rights is deeper; it’s about shifting norms of property.
A loosey-goosey discussion about trust in finance, business and technology today tells us a lot about the nature of 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 […]