High Performance with High Integrity

III. Core Principles and Practices

The key to achieving sustained high performance with high integrity lies in creating the right CEO-led corporate culture—the shared principles (values, policies, and attitudes) and the shared practices (norms, systems, and processes) that influence how people think, and therefore how they behave.¹

What are the constraints on the internal and external pressures to make the numbers which can lead to corruption? One answer is a disciplinary culture: people are afraid of violating company precepts (or breaking the law!), getting caught, and being punished. But there’s a positive answer, as well. In a robust performance-with-integrity culture, affirmative values and norms of behavior are so widely shared that people ...