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The Mechanics of Staying Honest
Five small moves that make — or break — a leader. Honesty is the foundation of leadership, and honesty has mechanics. Not grand declarations — small daily moves. And here's what most leaders miss: your mechanics don't stay yours. The team runs the ones they watch you run. Here are five. Tell the small true thing, not the small convenient one. The most common dishonesty in working life isn't the big lie. It's the softening — "no problem" when there's a problem, "great work" wh
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9 hours ago2 min read


Integrity with A hashtag
Why it quietly breaks culture. We like to think of integrity as something we either have or we don't. The truth is more uncomfortable. Most of us carry integrity with conditions — a quiet list of circumstances under which we'll tell the truth, keep the promise, and do the right thing... and a shorter, unspoken list of circumstances under which we won't. Integrity that holds only until it gets expensive isn't integrity. It's performance, waiting for a reason to stop. I wrote t
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4 days ago3 min read


INTEGRITY
Personal integrity is the moral foundation of our human personality. From the still point of integrity we behave openly, honestly, compassionately and with great discernment; we easily do the right thing and we self-correct our mistakes. The Merriam-Webster definition of Integrity is telling in terms of its importance in managing our human condition. Integrity is defined as firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values, of incorruptibility. Further define
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Jan 72 min read
Social Pressure
Look up. Look around. Do we pause to understand what external dynamics influence our personal opinions, biases and behaviors? Do we control how we socially interact with others within the framework of our own self-culture? Is our self-culture moral and ethical; do we operate in the world with integrity? We are each distracted and pressured by social dynamics, conditioned and influenced into behavior patterns we may not be aware of. Unwise use of social media and wasteful
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Dec 20, 20252 min read
What, Problems of Ego?
Disagreements between humans are always an issue of ego and world bound emotions. One or both people become offended , frames of...
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Apr 11, 20251 min read
I am no guru
Yo! I am no guru What I am Is an agent Of change Here to assist And to rearrange Thought patterns Driven by the ego My platform Is a...
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Sep 19, 20241 min read
The Divine Battle
At birth we are called up Each of us has a number Drafted into the divine battle Of ego over spirit Many of us resist Or even dodge the...
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Sep 15, 20241 min read
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