Word: trustingness
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"I was impressed by [Michael Brown's] willingness to accept responsibility for how incompetent everyone else was. He candidly admitted he was too trusting, too able, too overskilled to deal with all the retards around him. Overall, Jon, a heartfelt and stirring you-a culpa."
Ghanaians, on the other hand, could hardly care less about slavery. Acquaintances of mine—tough locals who make their living by conning, wooing or robbing foreigners—shuttled en masse to the festivities, sensing a gullible crowd. And they made out well, hocking cheap handicrafts and dubious...
The ROWE experiment started quietly, when Ressler, who manages Best Buy's work-life balance programs, helped a troubled division of the retail group in Minneapolis deal with sinking employee morale. Ressler encouraged the manager to try flexible scheduling, trusting his team to work as it suited them. "He said...
By 9:56 a.m. on May 1st, 2001, I was sure I’d made a mistake. Earlier that morning, on my way to school, I had dropped my college acceptance card in the mailbox after an agonizing month of weighing decisions. Did I prefer the Bay State to...
The dream for many women involves starting a business of their own. As economic confidence and corporate loyalty decline, says Mary Furlong, executive professor of entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University in California, people are looking for a sense of control. "What they're not trusting," she says, "is that big...