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Mix Fake and Real, the Palin Way
People are hungry for authentic leaders and authentic organizations . Assessing an organization’s authenticity or a candidate’s authenticity is one way that we gauge where to place our trust. To entice people to trust us, we need to make them think the organization is authentic. Sometimes, we may even want to create "Fake Authenticity" in…
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The 3 Inviolable Rules of Authentic Organizations
While working on some ideas in the pipeline, I realized that I have a few absolutes about what defines when organizations are being authentic. I’ve tried to whittle these down to their basic descriptions and to take away a bit of the specificity that makes the ideas seem academic and/or too complex. Here are these…
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Which organization has the most integrity?
Last week’s AdAge online poll asked the simple question: Which organization has more integrity: J&J, Google or UPS? It seemed to me like a dumb question… … because the voting system doesn’t let people explain their reasoning and thus you can’t really understand how voters define integrity or make their decisions. Websites have these mini-polls…
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The Authenticity Paradox of Gilmore & Pine
The authenticity paradox , as defined by James H. Gilmore and B. Joseph Pine II in their book "Authenticity: What consumers really want" , contains the following axioms: If you are authentic, you don’t have to say you’re authentic. If you say you’re authentic, then you’d better be authentic. It’s easier to be authentic, if…
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My Favorite InAuthentic Organization is…
… The International Federation of Anarchists. Consider the conceptual contradictions between identity, action, and purpose.