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Can You Develop Integrity?

John Wooden said “If you don’t have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over.”

You have the time. You have the choice

Integrity exists within your experience. Integrity is not a theory or a philosophy.

Integrity is concrete and real; it is efficient and effective.  

Acting with integrity is doing things right the first time.

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

No wonder all will say that integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Is there any other way to real success?

Some people who work with their hands and their hearts know this.

Some people who work with their minds know this but have forgotten.

Everyone can see in their experience concrete examples of how integrity is the competitive advantage. 

You can develop integrity in ordinary everyday things.  There are no books to read. It is easy and fun.

Principle Dynamics offers the following experienced based methodologies to develop more integrity

• The Course of Integrity for personal change
• The Practice of Integrity for individuals who lead others
• Everyday Integrity for character and family development
• The Integrity Dialog for leadership teams
• Value Stream Integrity

Without integrity, we have nothing. The world cannot continue to function with more and more people having less and less integrity.

After you look at the site, share it or better yet, decide to become involve in some way.  I need your help and regardless of what you do today, please find some way to help all of us develop more integrity in the world…it will be a better place

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

WRONG DOING, INTEGRITY AND NON-VIOLENCE

The world is a strange place with unwritten rules.

Some are rewarded for wrong doing. Others are not punished when they turn a blind eye. 

I broke that covenant at work.  I called the wrong doing. The consequence was termination.   

The details don’t matter.  It is the same everywhere. The people with power see themselves as right and those that oppose them are wrong.  

KNOW YOURSELF

In 432 BC Socrates said, “Know yourself.”

Easier said than done.

The word “Know” means to regard as true beyond any doubt. The word “Yourself” means your unique, usual, and normal self.  So to “know yourself” means regarding that which is unique, usual, and normal about you as true beyond doubt.

Integrity is wholeness and completeness, unfolding and becoming, purity and objectivity. Integrity is rooted in your self. If you don’t know yourself, you don’t know integrity.

Do you know yourself as true beyond doubt?   

Let’s see...

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.  

We are in the process of beta testing a new personal development service that will increase integrity and trust.

INTEGRITY AND TRUST ARE THE ESSENCE OF EVERYTHING SUCCESSFUL

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

Yet we know so little about them.

Even though we have no commonly accepted definition, integrity and trust are critical variables in every choice we make -whether it is consumer products, or the selection of a mate or friends.

We easily judge levels of integrity and trust in others but have trouble assessing it within ourselves. 

We say integrity and trust are critical to professional success, yet we have no way to develop them.

Integrity is your unique potential and possibility.  It is your value added proposition

IS SUCCESS AN ACCIDENT?

How many people do you know who accidently became a success?  

When this happens, a friend of mine quipped, “It is like Miracle-Gro spread on the seeds of faults.” 

When accidental money, power and fame come our way, we have to be careful not to be the old saying:  

“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.”

Accidents happen to you. Success happens because of you.   

Buckminster Fuller said “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”

TOWARDS A CULTURE OF INTEGRITY

“Our integrity - both individual and collective- is the foundation of our business success and should be reflected in everything we do.”  

                Stana Askren, Chairman, President/Chief Executive Officer, HNI Corporation

 

Organizations, like HNI are now conscious of the role and the impact that their existing culture has on performance and compliance.  

 

They know the cultural behaviors required for success and they understand their role in creating the environment that governs the way people act.

 

In my opinion, Stana and HNI have acknowledged some very important things.

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.