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Dark Patterns and Corporate Scandals with Guido Palazzo
Are there patterns that define corporate scandals?
What are the 9 toxic building blocks that are present when such scandals unfold?
How can leaders and followers alike help to build ethically robust organisations?
In today’s episode, I am speaking with Guido Palazzo who is a professor of business ethics at the University of Lausanne and the author of Dark Patterns – the hidden dynamics of corporate scandals
We discuss:
· How all of us are vulnerable to getting caught up in these Dark Patterns?
· Why the ability to speak up and for leaders to listen are so important
· Why having a Plan B is important in being able to break rank and undermine the Dark Pattern
· in the world instead of a top-down world led by the love of money and power
More about Guido Palazzo:
Guido Palazzo is Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. His research is focused on unethical behavior in organization . Guido has trained leadership teams and boards of directors of numerous companies in Europe, Asia and the USA in ethics.
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