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Dark Patterns and Corporate Scandals with Guido Palazzo

Dark Patterns and Corporate Scandals with Guido Palazzo7 Oct 202548 min

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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