Article | REF: AG1532 V1

Balancing complexities with ethics

Author: Marie-Laure BLANC

Publication date: January 10, 2019

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1. Identify the recurring elements at work in any ethical failure

"Those who cannot remember their past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana, American philosopher (1863-1952).

According to John Shoup, history repeats itself not because we forget but because, according to the laws of non-linear dynamics, the patterns that generate history facilitate identical reiterations.

So, to start with concrete examples, let's ask ourselves what common patterns are at work in remote failures:

  • in space (United States, Europe);

  • time (2001 for Enron, 2008 for Kerviel-Société...

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