Elon Musk and What Makes an Organization Trustworthy
“Tell us how you think about trust,” a moderator said to Elon Musk.
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Brian Scott Gallagher is the Communications Director at Ethical Systems.
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The Tim Ferriss Show with Jon Haidt
In this episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, Jonathan Haidt joins host Tim Ferriss to discuss moral relativism, how to understand human rights, Jon’s LSD experience, how safe spaces and character cancellation took over colleges, John Stuart Mill and the importance of viewpoint diversity, and more. Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York […]
A Virtual Dialogue on the Future of ESG
In June, r3.0, a global common good not-for-profit platform (“Redesign for Resilience and Regeneration”) held an asynchronous dialogue with people they see as “positive mavericks” in the ESG space. The event, you could say, was an on-point expression of what would seem to be a novel mission: to “crowdsources open recommendations for necessary transformations across […]
Corporations Are More Insect than Person
In the 1982 film Blade Runner, the bioengineered human Roy Batty confronts his maker, Eldron Tyrell, the head of Tyrell Corporation, a biorobotics company based in the bleak and decrepit city of Los Angeles. The corporation manufactures human “replicants” for slave labor in colonies across the solar system. Batty is one of the best of […]
In Confronting a Polarized Workforce, Persuasion Is Not the Goal. Learning Is!
In her new book I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, Mónica Guzmán outlines a recipe for disarming and transcending political polarization. A journalist, Guzmán draws from her experience working in communications for a nonprofit depolarization group called Braver Angels. “The book’s greatest offering, I […]
The Important Job of Making What You Know Clear and Accessible
Perhaps the signature trait of our species isn’t the smarts any one person might possess, but the knowledge we can collectively accumulate. The annoying or maddening thing, of course, is our tendency to forget. We can know great, useful things—like that on occasion rocks large and small, full of fabulous metals, can fall from the […]
The Psychological Cost of Companies Sounding Ethical for Money
In Star Wars Han tells Leia, after rescuing her from execution, “Look, I ain’t in this for your revolution and I’m not in it for you, princess. I expect to be well paid. I’m in it for the money.” Later, Luke tells him, as fighters are boarding their X-Wings to attack the Death Star, “You […]
An MIT Researcher Watched a Hospital Experiment with Shared Leadership
The social psychologist Debra Mashek, a self-styled “collaboration maven,” eloquently distilled, on a recent episode of Breaking the Fever, what that much-used c-word truly means. Worthwhile to do, she said, because the term, as a label, often gets thrown around haphazardly, doesn’t it? People get together, having some vague ambition to work with one another […]
Good Risk Culture Starts with an Open Conversation
One of the riskiest decisions in my life, I still tend to think, was going to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. It wasn’t going to be cheap. I’d have to work off tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt. And, with the journalism industry being what it was—business models for media outlets […]
The Entrepreneur Who Wants Us to Rethink What’s Worth Wanting
A powerful idea, that of mimetic desire, seems to be getting out there, spreading like a compelling meme. Chloe Valdary, for example—the Black entrepreneur who was profiled this year in The Atlantic concerning her heterodox antiracism programs—said yesterday, on Twitter, that she recently learned about mimesis theory, and found it fascinating. “When liminality”—meaning a period […]
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