Idea 29: Integrity
Trust being lost, all the social intercourse of men is brought to nothing.
Livy, Roman historian
Success in any business or field depends on building good personal relationships with other people, especially those who are there to help you. And the bedrock or foundation of all personal relationships – business or private – is integrity.
Field Marshal Lord Slim once defined integrity to me as ‘the quality which makes people trust you’. Mutual trust between the leader and the led is absolutely vital: lose that and you have lost everything. Moreover, it is very hard to re-establish it.
Integrity, from the Latin integer, literally means wholeness: an integer is a whole number. But with reference to people, it signifies the trait ...
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