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Willful Blindness Is Why Leaders and Cultures Fail

Tuesday, May 5, 2015
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“Willful blindness” is a legal term that means there is information that you could and should know, but have elected not to know. The term’s deliberate indifference or contrived ignorance is also used to describe the phenomena. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of willful blindness in the world today, which causes the downfall of an organization’s leadership and culture. Here are some examples of willful blindness:

  • banks selling mortgages to people they knew could n

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