“Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.” – Philip Crosby
Posts Tagged ‘relationship’
Monday, March 9th, 2009
Just being honest is not enough
- Honesty is like a coat you put on to match the conditions around you. Responsibility is like a great yoke you bear to ensure the way things will turn out. Integrity is taking up the yoke as if it were a coat. Everyday.
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- You have given me my follow-up topic! Difference bewteen accountability and responsibility....one is price of entry -- the other is teh basis for integrity.... Read more >
- In my experience, the easiest way to get started down the road of integrity is just doing what you said you would do (e.g. showing up when you said you would show up, get your commitments done when you said they would be done).
Do what you said you would do by when you said you would do it. That's ...Read more >
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
The Box
Harold Burson always answered his own phone. He encouraged us to do the same. “Clients pay to speak with you” – not with layers of gatekeepers…was his lesson.
- Now think about how Facebook has changed the notion of friends -- we had a few friends growing up -- now we have thousands -- whar are friends for??
- I love that proverb - but thought i had the ownership of it outside of Italy!....it's so true. You can never have too many friends - except on Facebook.
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Painting
All Relationships Are Local. You’ve heard this before…I hope!
We live in a schizophrenic world. On one hand we talk about how globalization has made our planet a small village—making us all more alike than different. On the other hand, the news is full of examples, many violent and sad, of just how different we really are and how important understanding those differences can be.
- David, I certainly agree with your description. This fact, that relationships are indeed local, has made the task of mastering relationship building more challenging, some might say daunting, Globalization has exposed each of us to each other, and thereby created fertile ground for new relationships. However, since relationships are local, it has made the demands (in terms of time and effort) ...
