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October 23rd, 2012
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Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Psychology Professor Emeritus at Stanford University
October 17th, 2012
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This interview was a rare and inspirational privilege to speak with world-renowned psychologist and Stanford Emeritus Professor Phil Zimbardo (most recently Founder and President of the Heroic Imagination Project), together with Brooke Deterline, Director of Corporate Consulting for the Heroic Imagination Project. The central theme: How Dr. Zimbardo’s over 40 years of ground-breaking and history-changing research on how good people can become susceptible to engaging in evil conduct applies in contemporary organizations and society – and how individuals can face challenging situations and systems that drive many toward evil but now act with courage or “contemporary heroism.” How can heroes...
The Test of Time Part I: Proactive Ethics Oversight
October 15th, 2012
20/20 Foresight, 20/20 Foresight, 20/20 Foresight @zh, Accountability / Transparency / Risk Management, Board Matters, Board Matters @zh, Conseils d'Administration, Gouvernance, Accountability, Transparence, Governance, Accountability and Transparency, New Ethics for New Issues, New Ethics for New Issues @zh, Nouvelle Éthique pour Nouveaux Problèmes, Uncategorized
I have been obsessed with time as an intellectual matter (Proust and Einstein…), a cultural matter (orchestra conductors, Big Ben, the Great Wall building process), an organizational matter (school bells, oven timers, day light savings time, airport schedule boards, time zones…), and a social matter (fashionably but annoyingly late). Time is perhaps the biggest challenge of ethics oversight for all organizations, whether for-profit, non-profit, academic, or governmental. The ethics of time is indeed intellectual, cultural, organizational, and societal for most organizations. Above all time also underlies the challenge of managing unpredictability that underlies all of my ethics work. The key...