
136 THE SIX LAWS OF ABSOLUTE HONESTY
your son or daughter what you are doing? Would you want them to
repeat the act?
Likewise,wouldyouwantyouremployeestomodeltheirbehav-
ior after yours? Do they know where you stand on issues like truth,
honesty, and forthrightness so they can model themselves after you?
Creating a published set of core values that includes these virtues is
a good first step. Living and preaching those core values every day
raises the odds your employees will follow the same path.
In his 1963 booklet, A Business and Its Beliefs, Thomas J. Watson,
Jr., former IBM chief executive, said:
I firmly believe that any organization, in order to ...