What’s the global financial crisis got to do with a fluff Hollywood summer date movie? A lot, it turns out. In “What Happens in Vegas” Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher separately go to Vegas on a whim, party hearty, and wake up together—to their mutual chagrin—married. Then they hit a slots jackpot. Problem: how to […]
Regular Trust Matters readers know I speak positively about trust. But there is no trust without risk. Trust can be misplaced, or abused. Bad consequences ensue. Thanks to prodding from regular reader Martin Dalgleish, I think it’s time to explore the dark side of trust. Trust can be violated at a personal level; at an […]
How trustworthy is Treasury Secretary Paulson at this key economic juncture?
I’m hardly the first to cast the financial meltdown in terms of broken trust. But usually that means something like "we can’t trust they’ll still give us credit." There is a much deeper, distinctive pattern that leads to broken trust, and it works the same personally as it does socially and economically. That pattern is […]
What it feels like, at gut level, to engage in trust–to be trusted, or to trust.
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No one explains better what’s going on than Tom Peters.
Trust in business overdoes the rational; trust in US presidential politics could use more of it.
When business talks about relationships, all too often it comes out sounding mechanical. Even oxymoronic. A few examples.
Criminal defense attorneys and DAs used to work together in a network of favors–a