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Wilful Blindness: Why we Ignore the Obvious [Audiobook] download free by Margaret Heffernan

Wilful Blindness: Why we Ignore the Obvious Audiobook download free by Margaret Heffernan
  • Listen audiobook: Wilful Blindness: Why we Ignore the Obvious
  • Author: Margaret Heffernan
  • Release date: 2012/4/20
  • Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
  • ISBN: 9781847399052
  • Rating: 7.94 of 10
  • Votes: 610
  • Review by: Amora Beck
  • Review rating: 9.67 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/26
  • Duration: 5H1M33S in 256 kbps (80 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-15
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, Shorten, MPEG4, OGG, FLAC, MP3 (compression RAR, 7-ZIP, LZO, ZIP)
  • Total pages original book: 400
  • Includes a PDF summary of 47 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 33M29S (9.4 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: In the 2006 case of the US Government vs Enron, the presiding judge instructed the jurors to take account of the concept of wilful blindness as they reached their verdict about whether the chief executives of the disgraced energy corporation were guilty. It was not enough for the defendants to say that they did not know what was going on; that they had not seen anything. If they failed to observe the corruption which was unfolding before their very eyes, not knowing was no defence. The guilty verdict sent shivers down the spine of the corporate world. In this book, distinguished business woman and writer, Margaret Heffernan, examines the phenomenon of wilful blindness. Drawing on a wide array of sources from psychological studies and social statistics to interviews with the relevant protagonists she examines what it is about human nature which makes us so prone to wilful blindness. Taught from infancy to obey authority, and absorbing the importance of selective vision as a key social skill, humans exacerbate their tendency to become institutionalised by joining organisations which are run by like-minded people. She looks at how hard work and the information overload of the modern workplace add to the problem. And she examines why whistleblowers and Cassandras are so very rare. Ranging freely through history and from business to science, government to the family, this engaging and anecdotal book will explain why wilful blindness is so dangerous in the globalised, interconnected world in which we live, before suggesting ways in which institutions and individuals can start to combat it. In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Margaret Heffernan's thought provoking book will force open our eyes.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Psychology, Popular Psychology, Cultural Studies
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 11.42 USD
  • Dimensions: 130x198x25.4mm
  • Weight: 276.69g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: London, United Kingdom

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