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Re: Adobe Buys Youzign (April Fools)

Dr. David Gruder, PhD, DCEP — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:19:11 -0000

This has been a long time coming...
I've thought long and hard about this...and I've decided...
I'm quitting being an entrepreneur, visionary and thought leader.

I'm tired of setting my own hours.
I'm tired of not having a boss tell me what to do.
I'm tired of bringing my passion to the world on my own terms.

I long for an early morning commute 5 days a week.
I long to work overtime for no pay to line somebody else's pockets.
I long to replace my Thrill of Living with the emptiness of feeling unfulfilled in my work.

Okay, who am I kidding?

APRIL FOOLS!

Re: Harvard Doc To Wikipedia: You’re Not Playing Fair On Alternative Trauma Therapy

Dr. David Gruder, PhD, DCEP — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:06:32 -0000

I'm glad to see so many comments on Dr. Leskowitz's article. I invite everyone, regardless of which side of the fence you're on regarding this issue, to consider what credibility standards are relevant when considering any novel healthcare approach's level of legitimacy.

I suggest that when evaluating credibility it's important to look at the stance that mainstream professional associations are taking regarding that approach. Given the state of today's mass media it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that authentic journalism is a dying breed. Professional associations, on the other hand, have much more sophistication than the news media ever will when it comes to evaluating treatment approach legitimacy. Professional associations also tend to be extremely reluctant to accept new innovations.

After years of refusing to recognize Energy Psychology as sufficiently legitimate for psychologists to receive Continuing Education credit for being trained in it, the American Psychological Association ultimately approved the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology in 2012 to award American Psychological Association Continuing Education Credit for attending training programs on these methods. On top of that, ACEP recently received a 4-year renewal as an APA Continuing Education Provider. That's the maximum renewal period that the APA awards.

To take the position that a professional association that's as conservative and stodgy as the American Psychological Association doesn't know what it's talking about is, at best, massively uninformed. But to take the position that Wikipedia knows more about Energy Psychology's legitimacy than the US's leading national mainstream professional association for psychologists (that is, the American Psychological Association) is, well, you fill in the blank...

Re: FTC Kills Affiliate Marketing?

Dr. David Gruder, PhD, DCEP — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:59:01 -0000

Ray,

Good question about whether an affiliate marketing association, with a solid, common-sense code of ethics will now be formed. I don't think it's ever too late for those in any field who value integrity to set themselves apart from the rest of the pack by letting the public know they are members of their field's most integrity-centered professional association. I hope someone reading this has the passion to create such an organization for this field. If so, I would be glad to advise them, having been the founding president of a nonprofit professional organization of helping professionals that has perhaps the field's most practical and respected code of ethics.

As to the recent corporate debacles, from my vantage point as an integrity specialist, the businesses and industries that have been guilty of the greatest amounts of greed and corruption consistently chose to sacrifice social responsibility for short-term profit. To me this is a perversion of capitalism, not true capitalism. It's true that some of these industries were highly regulated, as you point out. But, in my opinion those regulations did not even remotely begin to address the core ethical principles of self-responsibility, social responsibility and constitutional integrity. In other words regulations are not always about integrity, and this is why highly regulated industries often fall prey to greed and corruption despite being regulated.

Even more importantly, our culture's prevailing that profitability requires sacrificing integrity is the real culprit behind this debacle. We, especially in the United States, have for decades been pursuing a life fulfillment formula that is actually an unsustainable lie, as our current meltdown is demonstrating to those who can see. At the risk of sounding self-serving, I unmask that lie and provide a solution to it that anyone can implement, in my five-award-winning book, "The New IQ: How Integrity Intelligence Serves You, Your Relationships and Our World."

Keep up the great work Ray,
David Gruder,
http://www.TheNewIQ.com

Re: FTC Kills Affiliate Marketing?

Dr. David Gruder, PhD, DCEP — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:36:38 -0000

Hi Ray,

I'm glad you found my post useful. I agree with you that some people are unwilling to govern themselves. I also know that most people don't have a practical framework for how to think about ethics issues and social responsibility. In my experience, many of those who might appear to be unwilling are simply under-informed.

As for those who remain unwilling to govern themselves, I agree with you that they must be held accountable for their unwillingness. I too see draconian regulation based on the bad behavior of a few as a real problem. When necessary, I favor common-sense regulation so that those who behave well need not be concerned while those who don't behave well can be held accountable.

In this case, I would have preferred that an affiliate marketers association was created in order to set appropriate ethical standards for the field because this might have made it less necessary for the government to step in instead. As I said, in my experience when it comes to ethics and integrity a little training tends to go a long way...

All the best,
David Gruder
http://www.TheNewIQ.com

Re: FTC Kills Affiliate Marketing?

Dr. David Gruder, PhD, DCEP — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:27:36 -0000

As an integrity and ethics expert I believe we all have an ethical responsibility to do full disclosure to potential purchasers when we make a profit from their purchase, whenever this is not explicitly clear to the consumer to begin with. I view our society as suffering from a devastatingly damaging formula for decades: lack of self-responsibility on the parts of consumers + lack of social responsibility on the parts of business people. This fatal combination creates an engraved invitation for government to intervene. Historically, government has by and large been persuaded to introduce these kinds of business regulations only after too many consumers have been treated in unethical or misleading ways by too many businesses. As someone who is not a fan of government intervention, I view government regulation as a last resort when this is the only way to get people to engage in ethical business practices. My question is therefore this: did the government introduce this regulation before the affiliate marketing industry proved unable to police itself voluntarily, or did the government start regulating before such attempts proved insufficiently successful? BTW, this issue has been rumbling around since 2006, and this regulation will not take effect until December 1, 2009 (unless uproar forces it to be delayed).