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

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When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would get up for our principles. But we aren’t as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel 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, the downfall of Bernard Madoff, and the Challenger space trip disaster, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond, and illustrate how we will turn into more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and who we wish to be.

Explaining why traditional approaches to ethics don’t work, the book considers how blind spots like ethical fading–the removal of ethics from the decision–making process–have led to tragedies and scandals such as the Challenger space trip disaster, steroid use in Major League Baseball, the crash in the financial markets, and the energy crisis. The authors demonstrate how ethical standards shift, how we neglect to notice and act on the unethical behavior of others, and how compliance initiatives can in fact promote unethical behavior. They argue that scandals will continue to emerge unless such approaches take into account the psychology of individuals faced with ethical dilemmas. Distinguishing our “will have to self” (the person who knows what is correct) from our “want self” (the person who ends up making decisions), the authors point out ethical sinkholes that create questionable actions.

Suggesting innovative individual and group tactics for making improvements to human judgment, Blind Spots shows us how to safe a place for ethics in our workplaces, institutions, and daily lives.

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