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How power complicates moral clarity in organizational hierarchies

I got promoted into management and now I have to enforce policies I disagreed with as an employee and I cannot figure out if I am changing the system from within or becoming part of the problem.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Ascending institutional hierarchies often requires compromising the very principles that motivated the climb.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Responsibilities — the other side of rights?”

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