Joel Byron Barker

A writer with a toolbox chock full of pegs both square and round.

Archive for February, 2010

Trust and Toyota: What is Brand These Days?

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

While scraping the last of the coffee grounds out of the grinder, trying to maximize that pot of coffee this morning, I heard an NPR Morning Edition segment on how people’s trust of Toyota is irrationally affected by incidences such as the recent recall.  Apparently, people’s feelings about brands is more than  their desire to […]