A book that will open eyes to the most serious problem of our times. In the case of the US Government versus Enron, the presiding judge chose to employ the legal concept of willful blindness: you are responsible if you could have known, and should have known, something which instead you strove not to see. The guilty verdict sent shivers down the spine of the corporate world. In this book, Margaret Heffernan draws on psychological studies, social statistics, interviews with relevant protagonists, and her own experience to ...
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A book that will open eyes to the most serious problem of our times. In the case of the US Government versus Enron, the presiding judge chose to employ the legal concept of willful blindness: you are responsible if you could have known, and should have known, something which instead you strove not to see. The guilty verdict sent shivers down the spine of the corporate world. In this book, Margaret Heffernan draws on psychological studies, social statistics, interviews with relevant protagonists, and her own experience to throw light on willful blindness and why whistleblowers and Cassandras are so rare. Ranging freely through history and from business to science, government to the family, this engaging and anecdotal book will explain why willful blindness is so dangerous in a globalized, interconnected world, before suggesting ways in which institutions and individuals can start to combat it. Margaret Heffernan's thought-provoking book will force us to open our eyes.
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Once you start to read, it will slow you down because it makes you realize of the real blindness we all have, the book examples many, many, events and tragedies that have and are happening to us and the whole world, it was a timely read in that it also applies to the recent events in Washington and what our elected politicians do all the time to us working stiffs.
I purchased 2 of these books and passed 1 on to friends who had the same reading experience
I did, am going to re-read again .
Anasker1
Jul 28, 2011
Don't be an ostrich!
The author reviews situations where we ignore what is going on either from personal bias, urge to please others, don't want to face reality, etc. She suggests we challenge what we see and ask more disagreeable questions so we can truly see things more clearly and not just sit by passively while others take charge and make decisions. Heffernan says we need to be prepared to turn our assumptions upside down and examine them.
Includes an extensive bibliography!
