A few weeks back, while browsing my favorite blogs, I noticed an interesting post by David Maister entitled “How to Get Ahead: Lie and Cheat?“. I threw my 2 cents and shared the result of a study on CEO Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Corporate Misconduct.In our competitive society, winning and getting ahead became the most important achievement, setting aside corporate ethics, fair play and character/principle based success. To illustrate my point, we have a “hot” issue on the alleged leakage on the recent Nursing Board Exams.

Last year, I also discussed a similar topic. When I wrote Integrity: Should It Matter?, I have in mind the “When executives misbehave” article of Lala Rimuando and Tina Arceo-Dumlao’s “Company execs also guilty of graft, says polls”.

In almost every silos of our society, cheating became a primary tool to take advantage of a person, group or situation. This is done normally to win a contract, close a deal, gain more money, get a promotion, win an election and so on and so forth– cheating is used to simply get ahead. Cheating seems to have evolved from a misconduct to a winning tool.

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