The Real Reason Productivity is Down in the US
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Social Media: The End of Friends? Or the Beginning of Friendship?
Remember all those curmudgeonly quips about how online "friends" were cheapening the real thing? How the Facebook generation was mistaking true friendship for the faux, virtual kind? Can we finally…
Short Yardage vs. the Long Game: The NFL’s Fumble
Would you risk your company’s reputation in an attempt to save what amounts to 0.16% of your annual revenue? The owners of the NFL franchises have spent decades building the…
If Trust in the Media is Down, is that Bias? Or Paranoia?
Trust in the Media is Down. Again, still, more. Gallup is out with a new poll, showing that 60% of the US population "have little or no trust in the mass…
How Can You Fix Ethics if You Can’t Spell Ethics?
The Economist recently published an article called Fine and Punishment: The Economics of Crime Suggests that Corporate Fines Should Be Even Higher. It's fascinating reading: it suggests that we can economically…
Find the Fear and Swim Upstream to Trust
Fear is the root negative human emotion. Scratch the surface of other negative feelings, and you will find fear at the core. Fear Drives Behavior If you accept this description…
Greed, Love, and a Portrait for Sale
The news is much about greed. Greed dominates the headlines, not to mention the content, of what we read in all media. Are we perhaps at the point where the…
Trust Me, I’m Your Doctor
We all hear about health care. Usually it’s through the microcosm of someone’s illness, or the macro-view of dueling pundits and politicians. Frequently it’s adversarial, or negative. Thanks to long-time…
A Separation: a Cinematic Tale of Truth and Lies
This past weekend I saw A Separation, an Iranian movie with more awards to its credit than a dictator’s military jacket. It deserves every one of them. You’ll never find…
Trust and the Sharing Economy
What if everyone could be trusted? And everyone became willing to trust? Unrealistic? Sure, if you insist on all or nothing. But if we moved directionally toward those goals, it’s…