October 2022

Risky and Reckless

Understanding people who hold opposing political beliefs is hard enough when you rarely meet anyone like that (sorting), harder when they’re a them to your us (othering), and harder still when the stories that surround you give you little if any reason to take even small, slow steps in their direction (siloing). Add in the

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Sign the petition to the House of Representatives: Seat the Cherokee Nation Delegate

It’s time for the United States to fulfill its promise to the Cherokee Nation. The 1835 Treaty of New Echota between the United States and the Cherokee people led to the expulsion of Cherokees from their territory in a mass exodus known as the Trail of Tears, where 15,000 Indigenous people died including 4,000 Cherokee. The treaty also guaranteed the

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The 7 High-Trust Organizational Dividends

Now consider the dividends of high trust. Obviously the opposites of the 7 Low-Trust Organizational Taxes we’ve just discussed are dividends. To lower or eliminate redundancy, bureaucracy, disengagement, politics, turnover, churn, and fraud will certainly make a huge positive difference in the Trust Accounts and results in any organization. But there are additional high-trust dividends

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Takers and Givers

According to conventional wisdom, highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity. If we want to succeed, we need a combination of hard work, talent, and luck. The story of Danny Shader and David Hornik highlights a fourth ingredient, one that’s critical but often neglected: success depends heavily on how we

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