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A lack of integrity… is toxic to the trust that is the foundation of the leader-follower relationship.
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424 |
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Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe. Values are your core principles in life – they might be excellence and generosity, freedom and fairness, or security and integrity.
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64 |
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An informed audience is going to spot the holes in our case… We might as well get credit for having the humility to look for them, the foresight to spot them, and the integrity to acknowledge them.
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119 |
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Integrity is not about being honest when we agree with each other; it is also about being honest when we disagree or, even more important, when we make mistakes or missteps.
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189 |
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Research on everything from negotiation, to revenge, to company integrity reveals that when people believe they are dealing with a liar… they get angry, retaliate… and lose faith in otherwise competent bosses and colleagues.
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203 |
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…[a] company’s inability to consistently deliver on its promise… undermine[s] the integrity of its brand positioning.
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062 |
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A website that builds traffic by word of mouth, or by its content being picked up an linked out from other sites, can be assumed to have more integrity and inherent interest than a site that pays its way to the No. 1 position in search results.
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141 |
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Employees are seven times more likely to be loyal to leaders they believe have high integrity… than to those that do not.
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263 |
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Integrity is the basis of trust, which is not as much an ingredient of leadership as it is a product. It is the one quality that cannot be acquired, but must be earned.
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…if there is anything that undermines trust, it is the feeling that the people at the top lack integrity, are without a solid sense of ethics.
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