This week’s quotes and messages will be about integrity, something we looked for in the people we hired – all of them, line, and leadership: it was part of our hire for attitude and train for skills philosophy. If you look in thesaurus it lists similar values like trust, trustworthy, trustworthiness, respect, honesty, and reliability, things you’ll most likely find in people with integrity. Looked at holistically like that, it gives an overall picture of the kind of people you want to employ, no different from those you’d want as friends, colleagues, or leaders. People whose respect for themselves guides their morals – those with a conscience that makes them behave in a way that is believed by most people to be good and right. People whose respect for others guides their manners – those generally considered polite, respectful, and considerate, demonstrating good etiquette in their interactions with others by showing courtesy and awareness of others' feelings. Those are the people you want to be around, and what to look for in supervisors and leaders. But nobody’s perfect – if you, or the people you’re around, fall short of any of these, you should, and expect others, to own up to their shortcomings, apologize, and move on without judgment or animus. That too is a measure of integrity – without the willingness to do that, there is no integrity of character. Hold yourself and others to that today.
Laurence Sterne (1713 – 1768): Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric.
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