A friend of mine and I were discussing greed on the phone this morning.
We were saying how greed has failed big time at macro-level…. but at micro-level, it seems to be alive and kicking…that’s what my friend’s story was about.
I also have a greed story.
I got an email last week from someone I met at a function. It said that although he didn’t have time to read my blog…would I mind referring any clients to him…and also… would I know someone in the Middle East who could help him out with a project….
Seriously…!! Did he think this was really going to work?
Would someone please tell this function-hunting guy with a severe lack of social skills that we are living in the Web 2.0 era and the way you build social capital is by participating in other people’s interests and sharing….
You can see this happening every day in the conversations going on in LinkedIn groups. People are volunteering expertise and information that years ago they would have only been willing to sell.
Is the spirit of the interactive web going to kill greed for good?
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