Restoring Integrity begins with recognizing the need, and then being committed to continuous improvements toward that end. Integrity asks the hard questions, and if it is legitimate answers openly. The influences I have experienced of late are interested in ensuring that we as a company model integrity for those we serve. Much is being done to make sure that we remain true from the core of our operation to the vendors we serve.
Integrity has a relationship with accountability. It is necessary to have checks and balances to measure and grow your organizational culture. I met a man who operated in full disclosure, he was transparent and honest with me about my shortcomings, and helped me to see the errors of my ways. That man is a primary relationship in my life and continues to lead me in a direction of obedience to what is morally right and true so that I can be free to live life that is established on a foundation of values that lead to freedom. My belief is influenced form the core of many personal relationships and measured against firmly established time tested protocols for living. Key relationships that operate their life on a foundation of truth help to ensure decisions being made line up with long term sustainable futures.
During this time of moral concern, decay and erosion of the ethics and morals are becoming more apparent. The need to install integrity on a core level is an overwhelming task. The lack of integrity in society has bread distrust, and a lack or harmony that unless it is addressed quickly by leaders who prize integrity there will be an undesirable end. While this is a complex subject open to much debate it is a conversation that needs to take place on a recurring basis with a commitment from all team players to an end that establishes truth. If awareness and application of integrity is not consistent, drifting can occur that most often results in unnecessary failures. Goals of an organization can only be accomplished when integrity exists, otherwise they are not established priorities that are in place to serve the community but are most likely in place to serve agenda’s of the few. Self serving goals become obvious to observers and long term loss is often the end result. In the end a leader must know his team intimately and operate on behalf of those they serve.
An obvious and much discussed business failure is the Enron scandal. This failure and other like it will have a kinetic effect on corporate America for many years. Getting rich at the expense of others has been modeled as an acceptable behavior and financial prosperity has been the measurement of success. An example of an organizational failure is the sex scandals and other leadership failures in the church and other non profit organizations that express the condition of the heart. These examples scream of the need for our culture to understand what it means to operate with transparency so that we as a civilization can live out a legacy based on a life of integrity. The lessons we gain should be influencers that move us toward institutions and businesses that operate with transparency that leads to integrity.
With little exception from the large corporations to those start ups I hear an almost consistent desire to run the operation with integrity. Integrity is your friend, it is can be likened to a person who will always speak the truth to you even though it may hurt you to hear it. Integrity has a voice and is heard by those who listen deeply and have a desire to become mature in their decisions and make a difference that lasts generationally. It is a gift that exercised will influence others to develop excellence as well.
The problem and solution are sometimes wide spread and so the opposing results tend to happen because of a lack of plan to gain the objective to have a business or organization that operates with integrity.
The solution is to not only desire integrity but to take steps to ensure that it exists from having a community that you are accountable to, to having high level core relationships that prize integrity above popularity.
Integrity has a relationship with accountability. It is necessary to have checks and balances to measure and grow your organizational culture. I met a man who operated in full disclosure, he was transparent and honest with me about my shortcomings, and helped me to see the errors of my ways. That man is a primary relationship in my life and continues to lead me in a direction of obedience to what is morally right and true so that I can be free to live life that is established on a foundation of values that lead to freedom. My belief is influenced form the core of many personal relationships and measured against firmly established time tested protocols for living. Key relationships that operate their life on a foundation of truth help to ensure decisions being made line up with long term sustainable futures.
During this time of moral concern, decay and erosion of the ethics and morals are becoming more apparent. The need to install integrity on a core level is an overwhelming task. The lack of integrity in society has bread distrust, and a lack or harmony that unless it is addressed quickly by leaders who prize integrity there will be an undesirable end. While this is a complex subject open to much debate it is a conversation that needs to take place on a recurring basis with a commitment from all team players to an end that establishes truth. If awareness and application of integrity is not consistent, drifting can occur that most often results in unnecessary failures. Goals of an organization can only be accomplished when integrity exists, otherwise they are not established priorities that are in place to serve the community but are most likely in place to serve agenda’s of the few. Self serving goals become obvious to observers and long term loss is often the end result. In the end a leader must know his team intimately and operate on behalf of those they serve.
An obvious and much discussed business failure is the Enron scandal. This failure and other like it will have a kinetic effect on corporate America for many years. Getting rich at the expense of others has been modeled as an acceptable behavior and financial prosperity has been the measurement of success. An example of an organizational failure is the sex scandals and other leadership failures in the church and other non profit organizations that express the condition of the heart. These examples scream of the need for our culture to understand what it means to operate with transparency so that we as a civilization can live out a legacy based on a life of integrity. The lessons we gain should be influencers that move us toward institutions and businesses that operate with transparency that leads to integrity.
With little exception from the large corporations to those start ups I hear an almost consistent desire to run the operation with integrity. Integrity is your friend, it is can be likened to a person who will always speak the truth to you even though it may hurt you to hear it. Integrity has a voice and is heard by those who listen deeply and have a desire to become mature in their decisions and make a difference that lasts generationally. It is a gift that exercised will influence others to develop excellence as well.
The problem and solution are sometimes wide spread and so the opposing results tend to happen because of a lack of plan to gain the objective to have a business or organization that operates with integrity.
The solution is to not only desire integrity but to take steps to ensure that it exists from having a community that you are accountable to, to having high level core relationships that prize integrity above popularity.
