Integrity is getting harder to find.
Twenty-four ways to know if you have it:
First, what integrity's not:
Doing what's popular instead of what's right
Acting differently in private than in public
Saying one thing and doing another
Letting fear dictate your decisions
Taking credit for others' work
Valuing success over ethics
Hiding your mistakes
Following the crowd
Turning a blind eye
Making excuses
Blaming others
Staying silent
Integrity is:
Transparency
Ethical behavior
Keeping your word
Acting with courage
Treating others fairly
Owning your mistakes
Respecting confidentiality
Showing respect for others
Admitting when you're wrong
Standing up for what you believe
Refusing to compromise your values
Doing what's right, even when it's hard
In a world that values success at any cost, #Integrity is the ultimate success.
➟ It's always doing the right thing.
➟ Not because someone is watching.
➟ But because it's the right thing to do.
In my adolescence I began a journey of information literacy, questioning everything fed to me. Someone who seemed to always tell the truth, with integrity and compassion, was Dan Rather.
He was on the TV a lot when I was a kid. When he retired I was sad. But he’s still here, delivering the goods. And I’m grateful for that.
"We are, all of us, engaged every day in the construction of a moral order: by our accumulated individual examples, the words we use, the acts we condone, we can make it one that encourages decency and compassion towards others, or the reverse. This is particularly true of those in positions of leadership, political or other."
Ben Norton wrote: 'Instead of investigating how it published a fake story on supposed Hamas "mass rapes", the NY Times is investigating... employees who leaked info about how its editors hired a racist Israeli propagandist to write the fake story to justify Israel's genocide.'