Five Tips to Engage the Bystanders

A few weeks ago a colleague at work, Tiffney, referred adeptly to a situation in our Company as a “Bystander Effect.” Since then I cannot get that term out of my mind.  Until that moment I had not applied the “Bystander Effect” to teams and workplaces, only to when people watch bad things happen out in the community and do nothing. For example, this week when Florida State University quarterback, De'Andre Johnson, punched a woman in a bar and no one stepped in to help out. Behavioral economists, like Richard Thaler, believe the world is made-up of people who do good, [...]