LESSON SIX
Never Lose Integrity
President and Founder, Leadership for International Finance
THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON I’ve learned is, you have to keep your integrity. That’s the one thing you can’t lose. Your reputation will precede you no matter what you do, and keeping your integrity is the most important thing.
People often say, “What do you mean by ‘integrity’? That’s such an overused word. Sure, that sounds like ‘mom’ or ‘apple pie’—of course you need to keep your integrity.” Well, I call it your values in your innermost core, and I’ll give you an example.
When I first became the chief financial officer at Bic, the pen company based in France, I was only there a week. My dishes hadn’t even crossed the Atlantic Ocean to ...
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