To Be Honest

Ron Carucci spent years studying why people at work shade the truth, and concluded it is rarely about character. Drawing on that research and on conversations with thinkers including Jonathan Haidt and Amy Edmondson, he traces dishonesty back to the conditions organisations create.

The book sets out four things leaders can actually change: whether people's sense of who they are matches what the job asks of them, whether the stated purpose matches what gets rewarded, whether accountability lands evenly, and whether the place feels fair. Jonathan Haidt wrote the foreword.