Foundations of Business: Integrity Counts

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Foundations of Business Integrity Counts

• Value-Based
• Leadership Training

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What is Integrity?

• I dont want any yes-men around me. I want
  everybody to tell me the truth...
• even if it costs them their jobs. - Samuel
  Goldwyn

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What is Integrity?
Integrity 1. quality of being honest and
up-right in character 2. condition of being
complete. Maintaining our values is my
greatest concern as we grow.  I want to love our
work atmosphere and only want to make it stronger
and stronger. - Andy Fujimoto, CEO

• Integrity comprises the personal inner sense of
  "wholeness" deriving from honesty and consistent
  uprightness of character.
• A refusal to engage in lying, blaming or other
  behavior generally seeming to evade
  accountability.
• Integrity is holding true to one's values. Said
  another way being one's word doing what you
  said you would do by when/how you said you would
  do it.
• Integrity is knowing what is important to you and
  living your actions accordingly.

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What is Integrity?
Integrity The etymology of the word relates it
to the Latin adjective integer (whole,
complete). This above all to thine own self
be true, and it must follow, as the night the
day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

• Integrity comprises the personal inner sense of
  "wholeness" deriving from honesty and consistent
  uprightness of character.
• A refusal to engage in lying, blaming or other
  behavior generally seeming to evade
  accountability.
• Integrity is holding true to one's values. Said
  another way being one's word doing what you
  said you would do by when/how you said you would
  do it.
• Integrity is knowing what is important to you and
  living your actions accordingly.

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The virtue that will ultimately make you or break
you
Honesty. - Vicki Edwards
Doing what is right when no one is looking.
- Lynn White

• Integrity is usually classified as honesty
  however, it is much more than that.
• Integrity is the cornerstone of character.
  Integrity is the foundation of all other virtues.
• It is the first rung of the character ladder.
• Where there is integrity, other virtues will
  follow. Where there is no integrity, other
  virtues have no chance of developing.

Integrity to me has two levels.  If you scratch
at the surface, a person with integrity is
someone who has developed a noble value system. 
If you really dig deeper, a person who really
holds integrity is a person whose actions are in
harmony with that value system.
- Chris Waldel
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Simple Checklist
Integrity encompasses many aspects. It includes
doing what you say you will do keeping your
word and being honest and honorable in all that
you do or say. - Nikki Sexton

• Do you do what you say you will do?
• Can you keep a confidence?
• Does your signature on a contract or check mean
  something?

To me, integrity means doing what you know is
right when you ought to do it.  As our knowledge
of the world around us grows and we interact with
more individuals, what is morally and ethically
right should become more refined.  And,
timeliness in the practice of integrity is
essential.  If we intentionally postpone the
"correct" decision it is difficult to claim the
trait of integrity. - Mike
Carroll
Maintaining a personal moral code even when it is
inconvenient or not the "easy" thing to do.
- Teressa Broderick
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Structural Integrity
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing
that nobody's going to know whether you did it or
not. - Oprah Winfrey
Basicallyfor me its practicing what you
preach. - Kelly Huntington
Living life to the fullest by being truthful and
by always trying to make the correct decision for
the situation at hand. -
Nancy Beal 
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Integrity and Leadership
Its not what we eat but what we digest that
makes us strong, Not what we gain but what we
save that makes us rich, Not what we read but
what we remember that makes us learned And not
what we profess but what we practice that gives
us integrity. - Author Unknown

• True leaders embody certain virtues with the
  key virtue being integrity
• because a man or woman who cant be trusted,
  cant really lead.

Keeping commitments and doing the right thing. 
The right thing is determined by my moral compass
and my customer compass. - Mike
Vasilenko
The course of our lives is not determined by
great, awesome decisions our direction is set by
the little day-to-day choices which chart the
track on which we run. - Gordon B.
Hinckley
Integrity means walking in uprightness,
unwavering. - Rebecca Tristan
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7 Steps to IncreaseYour Personal Integrity
Integrity means to me to adhere to a set of moral
or ethical values or guidelines that can differ
from person to person, meaning that integrity can
be different for individuals.  There are many
areas where values may differ, a few examples
are religious beliefs, political beliefs, human
rights/equality beliefs, and animal rights
beliefs.  - Shaun Shireman

• 1. Decide today, once and for all, that at all
  costs, you will be worthy of trust the trust of
  family and friends, colleagues, and business
  associates.

To be trusted is a greater complement than to be
loved." - George MacDonald
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7 Steps to IncreaseYour Personal Integrity
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but
most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as
if nothing happened." - Winston
Churchill  

• 2. Do what you say you will do.
• 3. Make promises and keep them.
• 4. Stand up for what you believe.
• 5. Expect your integrity to be challenged.

"A man is never more truthful than when he
acknowledges himself a liar."
- Mark Twain
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in
the end if you look for comfort you will not get
either comfort or truth only soft soap and
wishful thinking to begin, and in the end,
despair." - C.S. Lewis
"A lie cannot live." - Martin Luther
King Jr.
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7 Steps to IncreaseYour Personal Integrity
To me it is a composite of many things in a
person's characterAs we get older and hopefully
gain more wisdom, integrity can take on a new
meaning with life experiences. Hopefully our
integrity grows through more understanding of
values, beliefs, wisdom, experiences, etc.  
- Yolanda Teseo

• 6. Dont give up.
• 7. Know who you are.

"Half a truth is often a great lie."
- Benjamin Franklin
"There is but one straight course, and that is to
seek truth and pursue it steadily. -
George Washington
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In Conclusion

• Webster says leaders are guides, conductors,
  those who have commanding authority or influence.

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In Conclusion

• All nations seek it constantly because it is the
  key to greatness, sometimes to survival, the
  electric and elusive quality known as leadership.
  Where does juvenile delinquency begin? In
  leaderless families. Where do slums fester? In
  leaderless cities. Which armies fail? Which
  political parties fail? Poorly led ones.
  Contrary to the old saying that leaders are born
  not made, the art of leading can be taught and it
  can be mastered.
  
  - General Mark W.
  Clark

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