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Defining Moments
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Defining Moments

by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
4h
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Suppose that a manager asked Aristotle, as he neared the end of his
sojourn in America, for his ‘‘bottom line’’ on the version of sleep-
test ethics we have been discussing. He would likely respond with
three comments.
The first is that it makes little sense to tell business managers to
follow their ethical instincts in right-versus-right situations. A basic
feature of these problems is that the men and women who must
solve them are pulled in different directions by their ethical instincts.
This was the problem for Rebecca Dennet, Steve Lewis, Peter Adario,
and Edouard Sakiz. In these cases, intuition did not point to the
answer, but highlighted the difficulty of the problem.
Second, even if managers’ intuitions seem to
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ISBN: 9781633692404