You Think Your Dog is Smart? You Don’t Know the Half of it
What we mean by the word ‘smart’ may be demeaning to your dog, and to us
Author Archive for: Charles H. Green
Entries by Charles H. Green
November Carnival of Trust is Up
The November 2009 Carnival of Trust by Jordan Furlong is up for your reading pleasure.
Trust Breakfast Part II Video: Q&A
Questions and answers by Brogan, Green, Smith, Maister
Trust Summit Summary and Video – Part I
Part I of the Trust Summit Breakfast in New York’s Harvard Club October 23 2009 #TrustSummit
Bank Credit Cards: Not-Illegal Does Not Equal Ethical
The behavior of some banks’ credit card operations is a flagrant attempt to confuse lack of illegality with ethical behavior.
The Book You Sold Me Is Not the Book I Bought
The inbound marketing train was on track to get me, and it did.
Buddhist Capitalism
Here’s what’s wrong with current business education, indeed current business thinking—in a nutshell. The current issue of the MIT-Sloan Management Review trumpets the main feature: "Sustainability as Competitive Advantage." You really don’t have to go any further. The clear implication is in the syntax: do this (little) thing, and you’ll get this (big) thing. Do […]
An Easy Way to Increase Your Trust Quotient
I was on the plane yesterday from New York to Seattle. It’s a breakfast flight. The menu has three options: French toast, omelette, or cereal with banana. The woman next to me—healthy, casually but not inexpensively dressed, a bag full of intellectual reading material—I peg as a clear cereal-banana candidate. She does not disappoint. When […]
Do You Trust Anonymous?
Would you trust an anonymous person? Turns out, you just might.
Collaboration as a Strategy, Not a Tactic
First, some context. Two weeks ago I wrote an article in Businessweek.com called Wall Street Run Amok: Harvard’s to blame. In it, I suggested that business schools including Harvard have over-taught competition, and under-taught collaboration—a concept more appropriate to our connected times. CNBC saw the article and interviewed me, albeit over-playing the blame-Harvard angle. Then, […]