Just doing my job: intelligence versus integrity in financial professionals?

摘要

Long ago, I developed an intelligence-versus-integrity balance test. In a dodgy or seemingly hypocritical situation, such as "I was not fully aware I was taking a bribe," the subject can either be very intelligent in the way he or she wriggles, and thus demonstrate a complete lack of integrity; or people shall assume the subject has high integrity though innocently strayed, but clearly lacks intelligence. It is tough to balance in the middle. And Greene (1978) knew which was worse: "Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."