Do You Trust a Robot? To Do What? Posted by By Charles H. Green June 15, 2010 Discussions of social trust are bogged down in robotic definitions of trust; silicon is not protein.
When a Win-Win…Is Not Posted by By Andrea P. Howe January 20, 2010 How creating incentives does not always beget the most desirable result
Applying Business Best Practices to Relationships Posted by By Charles H. Green March 20, 2009 Some business "best practices" are based on non-human forms, and turn out to be destructive when applied to people.
Fixing Executive Compensation: Social Engineering, or Ethics? Posted by By Charles H. Green February 27, 2009 Fixing exec comp can't be accomplished at the same level the problem got caused--by tweaking monetary incentives. We need to expect more.
When Incentives Backfire Posted by By Charles H. Green February 1, 2008 The extensive use of money to incentivize desired behavior has a serious bad consequence; people stop doing things for their own sake, and just do them for money.