Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Wilful Blindness
Margaret Heffernan · 2011
84/100
👍 Worth It
Margaret Heffernan draws on a genuinely wide range of case studies — Enron, Madoff, the Catholic Church, BP, Nazi Germany — to build a compelling case that not-seeing is a human default, not an aberration, and the psychological mechanisms she identifies are well-supported. The book sprawls a little, and the solutions section is thinner than the diagnosis, but Kirkus recognition, academic citation, and a TED talk that amplified the ideas all confirm this is a serious work that earns its place on a business or ethics shelf.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety88
substance84
craft80
originality80
accuracy84
hype72
age-fit88
human-eye84
Penny’s verdict84
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