(Dis)Honesty, The Movie

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(Dis)Honesty, The Movie

turteltaub-adam-200x200-150x150By Adam Turteltaub
adam.turteltaub@corporatecompliance.org

I just spent an hour and a half in the middle of the workday watching a movie.  I’m not going to lie about it.  In fact, I’m going to encourage you to do the same.

The movie is called (Dis)Honesty:  The Truth About Lies.  You can stream it on Netflix and find it in the iTunes store.  And you should take the hour and a half to watch it, even if it’s in the middle of the workday, because it will have a profound impact on how you think about compliance and ethics.

The movie focuses on the research of Duke University professor Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist who has specialized in researching and writing about our ability to deceive ourselves and to cheat.  For years I’ve recommended that everyone in compliance read his book The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.  The book presents the results of experiments that look at how we cheat, what leads us to cheat more, and what leads us to cheat less.

The work is both shocking and illuminating to anyone in compliance who has ever asked the questions:  what were they thinking, why would they do that, or why did they think that was okay?

His collaborate, Francesca Gino of Harvard University, is featured in the film and will be speaking at the Compliance and Ethics Institute in Chicago in September. I can’t wait to have her there. She’ll be talking about how our decision-making gets derailed.

I hope you’ll join us in Chicago, but even if you can’t, spend the time right now watching (Dis)Honesty.  Honestly, you won’t regret it.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Thank you for recommending this! I finally got to watch it and the research is fascinating. I will definitely read the book. There are so many things in this film to consider in terms of business ethics but two things really stood out to me. 1–Small interventions can effect behavior immediately (but not so much further down the road) and 2–Bad choices are easier to make if there is physical distance. The evidence is so compelling and really makes sense when you consider that human decision-making cannot be perfect, eventually we all make a bad choice. I am very disappointed I will not be in Chicago in September to hear Francesa Gino’s presentation.

  2. Thank you for this blog post, Adam. Does anyone have any other movies/clips they can recommend for training of new compliance officers or senior business management that focuses on compliance and ethics?

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