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Why We Don’t Trust Companies, Part II – the Three M’s

By Charles H. Green June 25, 2013

Yesterday I wrote about three fundamental reasons that most companies aren't trusted: trust is mainly personal, most companies don't understand trust, and they make bad choices of tools to enhance trust. Let's…

Why We Don’t Trust Companies Part I

By Charles H. Green June 24, 2013

People don't trust companies very much. Sure, we trust some companies more than others, and sometimes we trust them more than government (sometimes not), but when you think of someone…

When You Can’t Get No Respect

By Charles H. Green May 14, 2013

Some will recall comic Rodney Dangerfield's catch phrase. Others may remember Aretha Franklin's iconic spelling, R-E-S-P-E-C-T. When you respect someone, it's a verb. When you get respect, it's a noun. Either way, it…

When Being Trustworthy Isn’t Enough to be Trusted

By Charles H. Green May 1, 2013

In sales, you sometimes hear, "They were pursuing an aggressive strategy – aggressively waiting for the phone to ring." In other words, sometimes you've got to take action. Much the…

Part 2: Why Aren’t There High Trust Strategies in a Low Trust Industry?

By Charles H. Green January 30, 2013

In my last post, I asked the question: If financial services are such a low-trust industry (on average), then why isn't someone pursuing the obvious differentiation strategy of forming a high-trust…

Would Manti Te’o Trust Lance Armstrong?

By Charles H. Green January 21, 2013

King Kong vs. Godzilla. The immeasurable force and the immoveable object. The mountain and Muhammed. To these historic pairings, add Manti Te'o and Lance Armstrong, in the roles of trustor and trustee respectively. (For…

Brutal Honesty Isn’t

By Charles H. Green January 15, 2013

Oh it's brutal, all right. But it's not honest. Real honesty is empathetic. Here's how. I suppose you could be honest in a vacuum – but who cares? Was Robinson…

A Better New Year’s Resolution

By Charles H. Green January 1, 2013

I wrote a good blog post at this time six years ago, and haven’t improved on it yet. Here it is again. Happy New Year. —————– My unscientific sampling says…

Warning: Don’t Read This Blogpost

By Charles H. Green November 14, 2012

Well, well. You saw the title, right? And yet here you are, reading this blogpost. Worse yet – you're probably here reading this blogpost because you saw the title warning…

You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but You Can’t Make Him Buy

By Charles H. Green September 17, 2012

The biggest problem in sales? Violating the laws of human nature. Exhibit A: one of those timeless folk-wisdom sayings, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make…