This week co-host Brad Forsythe interviews Joe Pine, author of Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want. Joe Pine is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups alike. He is co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. Mr. Pine and his partner James H. Gilmore recently wrote Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), which recognizes that in a world of increasingly paid-for experiences, people no longer accept the fake from the phony, but want the real from the genuine. This book provides a way of thinking about authenticity in business plus a set of tools and techniques for rendering authenticity in any company. Time Magazine recently selected Authenticity on its list of 10 Ideas That Are Changing The World. Authenticity follows the... 9-May-08 9:00 AM
