5 reasons why good staff do bad things and how to design them out of your organisation
Everybody cheats[i]. Most people cheat in small ways – a forbidden snack on a diet, repurposing pens from the stationary cupboard, or using Google to get the answer during a pub quiz. Cheating can make us feel really good: when we cheat the system and beat the 'powers that be', we feel a win. But cheating over time can eventually lead us to see ourselves as lost causes, with no hope of redemption. Somewhere between 'good person who cheats' and 'bad person who lies' is the ti