5 Steps Leaders Can Take After Ethical Lapses

“Corruption’s not of modern date;
It hath been tried in every state.” — John Gay (1731)
While we seem to be surrounded by corruption, fraud, deception, and swindle these days, it’s nothing new.
What do we do when deception creeps into our lives?
Odds are, that’s how it approaches: by creeping. Blatant falsehoods are easy to spot — especially these days, it seems…
But when someone seeks to deceive us, it happens by degrees, and often times it isn’t until you've been duped that you feel the sting.
And then the sting is twofold: the deprivation of something of value (money, reputation, data, property) and the humiliation or knowledge that you were fooled.
Whether or not you can retrieve that thing of value that was stolen from you, the question becomes: what will you do now?
At this point in history, we're no strangers to what Lewis H. Lapham called “the American genius for the artful dodge”:
“the sales pitch, the ré…
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