num_pages: 237
description: What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace the community politics and beyondIt 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 for creating a more ethical world.
language: English
title: Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop
publisher: Princeton University Press