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Over past weeks and indeed years many stories have hit our headlines.  All, in my opinion share one thing in common, the silence of those who were present and, who were in a position, to do something.  In each story bystanders stood by doing nothing to stop the resultant harm. Whether the focus is on … Continue reading What to do…….

The inaction of bystanders is often the subject of media stories.  The silence of our fellow human beings makes a good headline especially when another human is being harmed.  In many ways bad news sells a story, it helps communicate how bad an issue is.  Bad news is what people talk about. The fact is … Continue reading Why people don’t act.

Workplaces, sports teams and friendship groups are a complex melting pot of personalities, values, traits, and behaviours.  I must add that in the main we see positive interactions between people who hold good personal values.  A majority want to come to work and do a good job.  The challenge for an individual in any workplace … Continue reading When you reduce the fear, you increase the opportunity.

Bad behaviour is usually more visible than good. It’s what people talk about, it’s what the news media report on, it’s what experts focus on. Experts are always trying to change bad behaviour by warning of how widespread it is, and they take any opportunity to label it a crisis. Many love talking about the … Continue reading The Destructive Influence of not knowing what others think….

Poor behaviour often comes from other smaller acts that starts a sort of descent to oblivion. Real-world cases of corporate fraud provide evidence of the slippery slope of problematic behaviour. Interviews with financial executives indicted for accounting fraud reveal that their conduct in virtually all cases escalated gradually. Here’s how one former financial chief described it … Continue reading When contests go wrong….