SAYING AND DOING

Why do some leaders continue to make ethical mistakes? Most leaders, when asked to imagine what they would do if they found themselves in an ethical dilemma similar to those faced by leaders who have failed the integrity test in the past, say that they would not behave in the same way—that without a doubt they would behave better and more ethically.

And therein lies a good part of the problem.

New research has taken a closer look at the difference between what people say they would do in a particular situation and what they might actually do. The research suggests that some leaders' inability to see how they could even find themselves facing certain ethical problems in the first place—let alone commit an ethical violation—is ...

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