Hypocrisy May Be the Biggest Leadership Flaw We Keep Missing

Changing this could be the secret to work happiness

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Actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock on national television at the Oscar Awards event. The audience remained seated. No security intervened. A couple of minutes later, Will Smith was invited back on stage to receive an Oscar award with warm applause.

Yet….

In the crowd, many fellow actors have spoken publicly against violence. Later, a few of them said they were against what he did. Yet no one stopped him nor intervened nor removed him from the event.

Harvey Weinstein abused women for years, yet he was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. Despite many knowing about it, he continued with no consequences for most of his career.

Donald Trump paid for prostitutes during his marriage — one even writing a book about it — and still won the U.S. presidency twice!

CEOs attend fundraisers and donate to charities against child exploitation and for human rights, yet some are discovered to work with factories doing exactly the things they are supposedly against.

Men publicly support women’s equality, yet privately those same men often don’t support their wives’ careers and some even hire sex workers.