We all have self-control to some degree. There are all kinds of ways you show you have self-control every day. Make the list yourself. For all kinds of reasons–personal, legal, employment, family, social, religious–you restrain your speech and behaviors. You have self-control already in some ways. Nevertheless, we often show we do not have self-control […]
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Our word, integrity, is an almost exact transliteration of the Latin word, integritas, which means “undiminished condition, completeness, soundness, blamelessness.” Many people today do not connect the word “integrity” with “leadership” today because of wide gaps between the two in many leaders in business and government. Accepting Personal Responsibility–a Fundamental for Leaders President Harry Truman […]
Fraud is generally defined in the law as an intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage. Fraud may also be made by […]
This essay raises an important question. “If you are in a place where a social crisis occurs–an emergency where electrical power, telecommunications, food and water supplies, or gasoline availability, run out and large numbers of people panic–do you have the moral fiber to take a responsible leadership role, to ‘keep your head when others are […]
In May 2009, the New York Times carried the important story of how some Harvard Business School graduates volunteered to take an “ethics oath” as they exited the MBA program. One year later, HBS appointed as its new Dean the advocate for that pledge. These bits of news became national news for one main reason: […]