The Trust Primer Volume 5
Greetings, and welcome to this month’s ebook. It’s been a cold and snowy February for many Trusted Advisor and TrustMatters readers; this is our contribution to warming things up, by stimulating the thoughtful brain cells. In this edition of the Trust Primer volume 5 we feature: Fixing What Ails Main Street: Ethics, or Incentives? Collaboration […]
Financially Justifying Ethics: A Faustian Bargain?
Many readers are familiar with Goethe’s Faust in which the protagonist sells his soul to the devil in return for having his way here on earth. Those who are not familiar with it will find the same theme echoed in Robert Johnson’s Crossroads song, in which the singer sells his soul to the devil in return […]
The Real Lesson of Toyota: Cultural Insensitivity?
The obvious story about Toyota—in the US anyway–is their perceived huge loss of trust. Typical is this column yesterday by David Lazarus of the LA Times, titled Toyota: What’s so Hard About Doing the Right Thing? Suggests Lazarus: “Toyota’s actions throughout this mess — the initial denials, the obfuscating, the gradual acknowledgment of safety […]
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THE TRUSTED ADVISOR FIELDBOOK
The pragmatic, field-oriented follow-on to the classic The Trusted Advisor. Green and Howe go deep into the how-to’s of trusted business relationships—loaded with stories, exercises, tips and tricks, and deeply practical advice.
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TRUST-BASED SELLING
“Sales” and “Trust” rarely inhabit the same sentence. Customers fear being “sold” — they suspect sellers have only their own interests at heart. Is this a built-in conflict? Or can sellers serve buyers’ interests and their own as well? The solution is simple to state, hard to live—and totally worth the effort.