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Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop

Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop

Author: Max B Bazerman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691236544
Published In: December 2022
Format: Hardback
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It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. In each case there was a supporting cast of complicitors: business partners, employees, investors, news organizations, and others. And, whether we’re aware of it or not, almost all of us have been complicit in the unethical behavior of others. In Complicit, Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman confronts our complicity head-on and offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses, organizations, communities, politics, and more.

Complicit tells compelling stories of those who enabled the Theranos and WeWork scandals, the opioid crisis, the sexual abuse that led to the #MeToo movement, and the January 6th U.S. Capitol attack. The book describes seven different behavioral profiles that can lead to complicity in wrongdoing, ranging from true partners to those who unknowingly benefit from systemic privilege, including white privilege, and it tells the story of Bazerman’s own brushes with complicity. Complicit also offers concrete and detailed solutions, describing how individuals, leaders, and organizations can more effectively prevent complicity.

By challenging the notion that a few bad apples are responsible for society’s ills, Complicit implicates us all—and offers a path to creating a more ethical world.

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Complexities of Complicity

Part I: Obvious Complicity

True Partners

Collaborators

Part II: Ordinary Complicity

Benefiting from Privilege

Believing in a False Prophet

Authority and Loyalty

Trust in our Relationships

Creating and Accepting Unethical Organizational Systems