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Setting goals makes otherwise-unethical behaviour more likely; goal setting is not bad but has overlooked problems
Drawn from what Max Bazerman said
What Max Bazerman actually said
- Max Bazerman Harvard Business School professor and scholar of negotiation
The fact that we set goals, then want to meet them, certainly increases the likelihood that we'll engage in behavior that we otherwise would have viewed as unethical. That doesn't mean goal setting is bad; it means it has problematic features that we often don't think about.
Where this was said
↗Evaluating Your Business Ethics (Gallup Business Journal Q&A)news.gallup.com
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