Intelligent Disobedience in the Workplace

I received this noteworthy example of Intelligent Disobedience from a colleague named Yael Schy. Her story is instructive:

“I have a workplace example of Intelligent Disobedience when I was Director of Social Policy for a national woman’s organization. It was strapped for funds, and was having to make lots of layoffs.

“My supervisor came to me and told me that the organization had been approached by the Phillip Morris company to submit a grant proposal to do a project on preventing hunger. I...