Transformative Principal

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, The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career. 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. Why do we struggle with doing what is right? All kinds of rationalizations put you away from looking at the problem. Incentives prompt us to look the other way. Position of power or control enables you to look the other way. People don’t see what’s in front of them because they’re paying attention to something else. Inattention blindness Seeing it vs. owning it. What would a person of conscience do, who is a principal? Observe and willing to