Check Your Blind Spots
3min2020 AUG 26
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“There’s a small percent of people out there who know that they aren’t good people. But most of us tend to think that we’re pretty good people,“ says Max Bazerman, a Harvard Business School professor. That’s why the focus of his book Blind Spots is on the large majority of people who have responsible jobs and believe that their integrity and honesty is protection against unethical acts.On the contrary, Bazerman argues that honesty and integrity are only protection against intentionally acting unethically. They are not protection against unintentional unethical behavior.The important question then becomes, what can you do about your blind spots? In this lesson, Bazerman offers three strategies for surfacing beliefs, preferences and patterns of behavior that you didn’t know you had.Look at the data.Consider the contributions of others.Identify conflicts of interest.