Entries by Charles H. Green

Leadership and Folk Wisdom

The literature on leadership is distinctive in two respects—its volume, and its level of generality. Maybe it’s just me, but I tend to glaze over when I can’t figure out if the subject being discussed is a verb or a noun. So it’s interesting when you run across a piece on leadership that is clear […]

Trust, Politics and US Health Care Policy

The ability to trust is not an unalloyed virtue. It opens one up to the possibilities inherent in a relationship. It can also make one scam-candy for the unscrupulous. Yet trust without risk is not trust. So we have evolved to make snap judgments and hold them strongly, even in the face of contradictory evidence. […]