A conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat on authoritarians, debasement, and defending Democracy

The massacre in Lewiston Maine is not just the heinous cowardly act of one man with a gun, but symptomatic of a broken society.

Fraud is a crime of relationships. It involves dishonesty, deception, betrayals of trust and abuses of power. This article elaborates the complex psychodynamics in fraud matters and delineates psychologically sophisticated tools for actionably leveraging psychodynamic intelligence.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat Interviews Alexander Stein on the Psychology of Fraudsters and Power Abusers

Bernard Madoff, architect of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died today, 14 April 2021, at the age of 82. His fraud was far more than a masterfully executed economic crime. We must never lose sight of the devastating human toll wrought by his actions.

Human history is a catalogue of conflicts, often expressed with horrifyingly unconscionable amorality, over whose system of ethics or code of behavior is more right.

We are confounded by CEOs who seem hell-bent on acting (or have already acted) against their interest: what causes these situations? Are they ever preventable? And perhaps most importantly to practitioners, what can be done to contain the damage or put the train back on track?

A response to a reader’s comment to a blog post authored with Martin Kenney on the idea that Everyone is a Fraudster.

A discussion with Martin Kenney on the core psychological devices used in the commission of fraud that are normal, shared by all and simply part of being human.