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Today I talked to Max Bazerman about his book\xa0Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop\xa0(Princeton UP, 2022).\nRemember Saturday Night\xa0Live\u2019s\xa0satirical TV spot for Ivanka Trump\u2019s perfume, Complicit? Talk about a timely topic. In what is Bazerman\u2019s third book on ethics, the focus is on the people who surround an \u201cevil\u201d doer and enable or allow harmful behavior to occur. From the implosion of FTX under the funky leadership of Sam Bankman-Fried, to Elizabeth Holes at Theranos or Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers, there is always a large supporting cast of those who trade on privilege, defer to authority, or have their trust exploited. Indeed, in this interview Bazerman touches on seven different profiles in complicity that serve as a counterpoint to JFK\u2019s book,\xa0Profiles in Courage. What solutions does Bazerman offer? Besides changing the culture of an institution or company, one particular way forward is to amass co-whistleblowers by creating \u201cinformal escrows\u201d so that the victims of perpetrators like Harvey Weinstein don\u2019t have to go it alone in raising what might politely be called \u201clegitimate concerns.\u201d\nMax Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Besides being the author of books like Blind\xa0Spots\xa0and Decision\xa0Leadership\xa0and an expert on the art of negotiations, he describes himself as a \u201cgritty city kid from Pittsburgh.\u201d\nDan Hill, PhD, is the author of ten books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. (https://www.sensorylogic.com). His newest book is\xa0Emotionomics 2.0: The Emotional Dynamics Underlying Key Business Goals. To check out his related \u201cDan Hill\u2019s EQ Spotlight\u201d blog, visit\xa0https://emotionswizard.com.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law