Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and What to Do about It

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Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and What to Do about It

AUTHOR: Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel.
YEAR: 2011
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press

SUMMARY:

When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, the authors examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco industry, to sales of the defective Ford Pinto and the downfall of Bernard Madoff, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond, and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and who we want to be.

Summary taken from Vincent Fairfax Fellowship? at the Melbourne Business School?: https://sites.google.com/site/vffpreadings/home/books

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