Philippa Hann and Moira Somers are writing a book on financial scandals with a special focus on human behaviour. Here they share their professional experience and insight on the path to professional misconduct...
"I would never do that" we say to ourselves when we see a report of professional misconduct. Yet thousands of solicitors, accountants, doctors and financial advisers are subject to disciplinary action each year. It is hard to imagine that all of them deliberately intended to breach their professional standards. So, what went wrong? The answer may lie in understanding personal boundaries and in what happens when we fail to maintain them. Personal boundaries are psychological demarcations that help us set healthy limits on our behaviour, relationships, and time. They have much in c...
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