A grande maioria das pessoas concorda que precisamos construir empresas humanizadas, com propósito, orientadas à criação de valor para todos os seus públicos e com ênfase na sua resiliência a longo prazo. Essa aspiração nobre não é apenas um imperativo ético. Trata-se de uma perspectiva inteligente para criar organizações de…

Uma reflexão fundamental para a ética e o compliance nas empresas — No trânsito, há duas soluções para resolver uma intersecção: o semáforo ou a rotatória. Elas partem de lógicas antagônicas. O semáforo assume que as pessoas não são confiáveis para lidar com as intersecções por conta própria. Elas devem apenas seguir às regras de sinalização de maneira automática e irrefletida. Já…

Behavioral ethics series #8: creating successful companies attuned to the values and challenges of the 21st century — In the previous text, I showed how setting unrealistic or unidimensional goals is part of the pressures coming from the organizational context that may lead to ethical blindness. In this article, I describe how promoting a climate of excessive internal competition reinforced by a “winner-takes-all” performance evaluation system is another…

Understanding the difference between complex and complicated systems is critical to successfully lead companies in the 21st century Do we live in a complex or complicated world? Are companies complex or complicated systems? This is not a semantic argument: understanding the difference between complex and complicated systems is essential to…

Behavioral ethics series #7: creating successful companies attuned to the values and challenges of the 21st century “Morals go out of the window when the pressure is on. When the responsibility is there, and you have to meet budgetary numbers, you can forget about morals. Circumstances overrule morals.” Steven Hoffenberg…

Compreender a diferença entre sistemas complexos e complicados é fundamental para liderar empresas com sucesso no século XXI Vivemos em um mundo complexo ou complicado? As empresas são sistemas complexos ou complicados? Esta não é uma discussão semântica: compreender a diferença entre sistemas complexos e sistemas complicados é fundamental para…

Behavioral ethics series #6: creating successful companies attuned to the values and challenges of the 21st century In the previous text of this series, I described the three mains aspects of our daily working life that may lead to ethical blindness: the pressure of authority; peer pressure; and, the self-imposed…

Why most of the wrong things are done by good people? The pressures of our daily work life Behavioral ethics series #5: creating successful companies attuned to the values and challenges of the 21st century In the previous texts of this series, I described how our cognitive biases, stages and…

Why do we overestimate our ethical behavior? Stages and dynamics of our decision-making process Behavioral ethics series #4: creating successful companies attuned to the values and challenges of the 21st century In the latest text of this series, I described how our limited rationality and cognitive biases lead us to…