The Conversation
Negotiating your integrity
You sit down with the hiring manager and try to negotiate the terms of your own integrity. Can you take the role without doing the part that keeps you up at night?
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The Values Test
→The promotion requires you to defend something you do not believe in. The money is real. The compromise is too.
Part of the quest
Ethics & Integrity at Work
→From shading a number for your manager to witnessing misconduct and deciding whether to report — practice the decisions that define your professional character. These are the conversations most people avoid. They are also the ones that matter most.
What you'll learn from The Conversation
This scenario focuses on Negotiating your integrity — a critical skill inside the broader leadership domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Values Test, a full interactive story inside the Ethics & Integrity at Work quest.
Skills you'll build in Ethics & Integrity at Work
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The promotion comes with a corner office and a 40% raise. It also requires you to champion a product you think causes harm. The offer letter is sitting open on your screen.
You're already building the justification in your head — everyone does this, it's just business, you can change things from the inside. The rationalizations are getting more elaborate because the truth is getting harder to ignore.
Accept or decline. Stay or go. There's no third option and no more time. The decision you make today is the one you'll explain to yourself for years.
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