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INTEGRITY AND PERFORMANCE-DO YOU KNOW?

The question is not what is the correlation between integrity and performance but rather why do we ignore what we know is true?  

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

• Do you know that?

Success is built through cohesion and adherence to the constancy of the purpose.

• Do you know this is another name for integrity?

As integrity declines, so does workability and as workability declines so does performance.

• Do you know that you demand integrity in electrical, water and sewage systems?  

The fundamental element of integrity –truthfulness is critical to survival.  

• Do you know that “surfacing the truth” is the essential to lean enterprises?  

Integrity is not only personal, it's collective.  

• Do you know people or organizations without integrity?

Employees provide discretionary effort based on their perception of the integrity of the systems.  

• Do you know that a company with the most discretionary effort wins in the end?  

Integrity is not a philosophy or a theory. It is practical, concrete, efficient and effective.

• Do you know people make buying decisions based on the integrity?  

Integrity is a shared asset directly correlated to wealth creation.

• Do you know if your money is invested with integrity

Integrity is doing the right thing, doing the next right thing and doing things the right way.

• Do you know any other way to do things?

Of course you know all this.  

• Then why do we ignore what you know?

Do you know how to develop more integrity in your life, in your family, in your organization?

Call me. I know how to develop integrity. Contact me at principledynamics@gmail.com or call me at 706-267-0609. I want to speak to you about integrity and how it can help you and all of us.

Douglas Ross is a businessman and an advocate for integrity. He is the founder of Principle Dynamics

 

 

INTEGRITY, RIGHT AND TRUST

Integrity, right and trust are real and observable. They are the essence of everything successful.

Even without explicit definitions, integrity, right and trust are understood implicitly as critical variables in every choice we make -whether it is consumer products or the selection of a mate. 

We instinctively judge levels of integrity, right and trustworthiness in others but are blind to how others assess our integrity, rightness and trustworthiness.   

We proclaim that integrity, right and trust are critical to success, yet complain when success eludes us.   

The definition of integrity as adherence to a standard eludes us. The complexity of integrity as wholeness mystifies us. The idea of integrity as perfection is dismissed as impractical.  

Integrity is doing the right thing, doing the next right thing and doing things the right way.

INTEGRITY IS ACTIONABLE

Integrity is the essence of everything successful. It is a proven concept that has been true in the past while providing direction for the future.

The current research on business integrity reveals new applications for individuals and organizations.    

The real value of integrity is that it is collective, not personal. Anna Bernasek, in The Economics of Integrity, argues that integrity matters-not just to our moral well-being but to our economic well being.  

She observes that integrity is an essential part of all business transactions.  Profitability is a natural outcome of integrity based relationships where sellers are trustworthy and when consumers trust.    

These relationships hold everything together and allow the economy to work. Integrity, then, is a shared asset that brings financial rewards. Investing in our collective integrity; is investing in our collective wealth.

Without integrity, nothing works. Dr Michael Jensen, a Harvard Business professor, proposes that   “As integrity declines, workability declines, and as workability declines, value declines. “  If you don’t have the right tools or parts to do the job, then the ability to do the job is compromised and value of the final product is diminished.

Maximization of any performance initiative requires integrity. Acting without integrity, he concludes, generates painful consequences just as surely as violating the law of gravity.

Integrity is a strategy for Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) management at PricewaterhouseCoopers. The strategy is built on three principles:

• An integrated approach to GRC fosters a culture of business integrity and accountability;
• The embedding of integrity into organizational structures and processes provides effective coordination of people, process and technology capabilities; and,
• An integral code of business conduct ensures compliance to the letter and spirit of the law.

Integrity is the key driver of marketplace differentiation at Novartis, a leading healthcare company.

At Novartis, integrity means doing the right thing, building a culture of integrity, managing risks, strengthening their reputation and fostering a competitive advantage. They establish performance standards for establishing, promoting and enforcing integrity in all business processes. .

Integrity is about firing on all cylinders. Dr Henry Cloud, a psychologist, states that integrity is the courage to meet the demands of reality. He examines how truthfulness, results orientation, overcoming adversity, continuous improvement and worthwhile purpose are the essential qualities for personal success. .

Integrity occurs when everything clicks and things unfold in an undivided, integrated, intact and uncorrupted manner.

Integrity is in the eye of the beholder. Tony Simons, in The Integrity Dividend, concludes that manages don’t define their integrity, others do. Employees assess whether management words and actions fit.   

When employees trust their managers’ integrity, they demonstrate higher levels of engagement. The resulting discretionary effort drives the customer experience and the economic benefit of integrity is actualized. This is the integrity dividend.

Without trust you have nothing, without integrity you can do nothing. Integrity is actionable strategy for today’s business environment.

If you cultivate integrity within yourself and your organization, everyone has a better chance to succeed.

Want to learn more?  Contact me at principledynamics@gmail.com or call me at  706-267-0609. I want to speak to you about integrity and how it can help you and all of us.

Douglas Ross is a businessman and an advocate for integrity. He is the founder of Principle Dynamics

Playing in Integrity

Playing is an authentic, joyful, activity that integrates body and mind. It is integrity in action.

We pay athletes to play games. We pay artists to dance.  We pay actors to perform.

But we ourselves play no more. We are paid to work.

All children play. Most adults don’t.  

Play is an original experience. Play is a genuine response to a situation. It is value added.

Play is individual and collective.  

Play is being responsive to others and the reality of the situation. Play overcomes obstacles, distractions and interruptions efficiently and effectively. Collaboration and empowerment are the norm. Pride and satisfaction are evident in all results, even the most imperfect.     

Play is actually learning to do the right thing. Doing the right thing is a trial and error process that exists without concern for the outcome. A child places a favorite teddy bear in a place and then changes it to another.

One keys of play I observe in children is that individual expression is not self censored by an internal standard about what the child thinks others think should happen. Play, then, is not contrived. It is authentic, creative, and truthful. And it is transparent.

Integrity is not a theory or an idea. It is practical reality. Our water system demands integrity. Our work environment should demand integrity.

Integrity is not hard work. It is play.

Play always refreshes; work mostly depresses.  

Play at being impeccable with your word.

Overcome a lack of integrity in the smallest of things in play. Practice being true to your word.

It will result in a lifetime of play.

Want to learn more?  Contact me at principledynamics@gmail.com or call me at  706-267-0609. I want to speak to you about integrity and how it can help you and all of us.

Douglas Ross is a businessman and an advocate for integrity. He is the founder of Principle Dynamics

The Law of Integrity

Actions that create order are in integrity. Actions that result in disorder are out of integrity.

The Law of Integrity[1] provides more insight into this statement.  

The Law of Integrity states that as integrity (whole and complete) declines, workability declines, and as workability declines, value (or more generally, the opportunity for performance) declines.

When it a car is not acting in integrity, something is wrong. It is not whole and complete. It has a component missing or is malfunctioning.

The car becomes unreliable and unpredictable. This in turn creates frustration, uncertainty and insecurity within ourselves.

If the car fails in traffic, we could create a traffic jam, and be late for appointments or cause others to be late. This causes a temporary inability to perform.

This creates internal feelings of powerless and anger while destroying trust in your relationships.

In this hypothetical example, the out-of-integrity car creates a lack of integrity in life with a lot of un-workability fallout.

This is true of all our associations with persons, groups or organizations that are out of integrity. The effects are huge, but generally attributed to something other than the lack of integrity.

Violating the law of Integrity generates painful consequences just as surely as violating the law of gravity.

It helps explains why when you are acting out of integrity, you create more disorder.  

I want to speak to you about integrity and how it can help you and all of us. Contact me at principledynamics@gmail.com or call me at 706-267-0609. 

Douglas Ross is a businessman and an advocate for integrity. He is the founder of Principle Dynamics

© 2012 All Rights Reserved, Douglas Ross, Principle Dynamics Consulting Inc.

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[1] Integrity: A positive model that incorporates the normative phenomena of morality, ethics and legalty. Michael Jensen, Werner Erhard, and Steve Zaffron

 

Led By Integrity

People tell me that the world is not ready for integrity. I tell people that I am not ready for a world without integrity.

Integrity is internal. It is the intention of truth in our words and the discipline of habitual excellence in our actions.

It is part of your character, our unique DNA that makes us who we are in this world.

Integrity does not exist in theory or philosophy; it exists within your being.   

Even a child can see your integrity.   

Integrity is not just personal; it is collective.

Integrity is external. It is what defines and defeats us as an organization or as a nation. Integrity is adherence to the constancy of purpose required for performance.

Integrity is structural; as in a building. It is data integrity in communications. It is design integrity and ecological integrity. Our bodies need integrity for us to survive. Integrity is everywhere. 

Integrity is not a theory or philosophy, it is a concrete reality

People buy integrity.  

To be led by integrity is to put integrity first within ourselves and within the world.

It is being impeccable with your word; it is the discipline of habitual excellence in your actions.

To be led by integrity is to create cohesion and the adherence to constancy of performance in all our collective activities, whether it be nation building, infrastructure creation, manufacturing provisions, health care services, or any other activity known to man. 

How can the world not be ready for integrity?

I want to speak to you about integrity and how it can help you and all of us. Contact me at principledynamics@gmail.com or call me at 706-267-0609. 

Douglas Ross is a businessman and an advocate for integrity. He is the founder of Principle Dynamics

© 2012 All Rights Reserved, Douglas Ross, Principle Dynamics Consulting Inc.

WHY WE NEED TO HAVE A DIALOG ABOUT INTEGRITY

The integrity dialog, as any conversation, is a form of life, lived through words, that enables anyone who participates to move to a new understanding of themselves and their community.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful. The dialog has many possibilities.

The first possibility: We stop talking to ourselves.

As long as we assume others are like us, have the same background and share the same values, we talk to them as though we were talking to someone like us.

In effect we end up talking to ourselves.

What is Right?

“What is right with the world is the world. In fact, nearly everything else is wrong with it.”
G. K. Chesterton.

People want to do the right thing. It is something we all regard as worthy and desirable. It is a belief, and a standard that is the heart of everything we do.

Organizations want to do the right thing. It is a fundamental principle that shows up in people, processes and products. 

Integrity is doing the right thing, doing the next right thing and doing things right.

But, what is right?

INTEGRITY AND TRUST ARE FREE

Integrity and trust are free and the ultimate in “what is in this for me”.

It is realizing all that you can be.

Integrity and trust are the cornerstones of journey from possibility to actualization. They take you from separateness, stagnation and perception to completeness, growth and reality.  

The potential for integrity and trust exist in the here and now of ordinary existence. Every day choices about small things like eating and or big things like work offer us the opportunity to pursue integrity and build trust.

Every choice has a consequence that either adds or subtracts from your integrity and trust.   

Integrity is the optimal experience. The process of its realization is the path way to an authentic individuated life. It is the ultimate journey into the mysteries of one’s life.  

SYNERGY IS AN OUTCOME OF INTEGRITY

It can’t be but it is!

Think about it, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

This is like saying 2+2 is not four but more.

Synergy means that things work together.

Words can’t explain the essence of this. We know it and want it but what and how do we get it?  

For a long time, the known world had no thought of synergy. The second law of thermodynamics dominated. It stated that everything will increase in entropy.

In other words, disintegration is the way of the world and chaos is destiny.  

And since we are of the world, well then ….the way and end are clear.