This Element is an excerpt from Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work (ISBN: 9780137007783) by Alan Lurie. Available in print and digital formats.

Real insights for handling the professional, personal, and moral conflicts that don’t have easy answers and aren’t covered in your company’s ethics handbook!

A new potential client calls to ask you to come in for an interview for a significant project. You are currently providing similar services to another company that is their direct competition. You suspect the new potential client does not know about this and might not hire you if they knew. Should you go?