The Conscience Code with Richard Shell Transformative Principal 449

<p>Richard Shell is a global thought leader and senior faculty member at one of the world’s leading business schools, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Chair of Wharton’s Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department, the largest department of its kind in the world. His forthcoming book, <a href= "https://amzn.to/3k9wkku"><em>The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career.</em></a> addresses an increasingly urgent problem in today’s workplace: standing up for core values such as honesty, fairness, personal dignity, and justice when the pressure is on to look the other way.</p> <ul> <li>Why do we struggle with doing what is right?</li> <li>All kinds of rationalizations put you away from looking at the problem.</li> <li>Incentives prompt us to look the other way.</li> <li>Position of power or control enables you to look the other way.</li> <li>People don’t see what’s in front of them because they’re paying attention to something else.</li> <li>Inattention blindness</li> <li>Seeing it vs. owning it.</li> <li>What would a person of conscience do, who is a principal?</li> <li>Observe and willing to own it.</li> <li>When it comes to values, there’s no such thing as a small conflict.</li> <li>turning away from conflict is a habit.</li> <li>Virtue is a habit - Aristotle and major religions.</li> <li>Don’t do evil just because you think it’s a little evil.</li> <li>You can be the person who steps up</li> <li>How to have difficult conversations with your superintendent</li> <li>5 different kinds of pressures, peer, authority pressure, incentives, role, systemic PAIRS.</li> <li>Name the pressure.</li> <li>Find the why the superintendent is doing this.</li> <li>What pressure are they under?</li> <li>Who can I talk to that will give me insights into what they are experiencing?</li> <li>Find their motivation.</li> <li>I’m looking to find reasons where this is a great idea!</li> <li>Create a role play</li> <li>Calling someone crazy is a failure of imagination on your part.</li> <