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With just four days left in the year, Americans are eagerly watching and waiting for governmental leaders to reach a budget agreement to avoid the “fiscal cliff” – a series of tax increases and spending reductions that will be triggered in 2013. A failure to find a solution will not just send the U.S. economy off a fiscal cliff, it will represent our political leaders falling off a “leadership cliff” as well.
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A leader without integrity is an independent, soulless one. Integrity without leaders is just a concept. For integrity to come alive, leaders need to embrace it. For leaders to lead effectively, integrity needs to be upheld. More than the relationship between leader and integrity is the need for both to be demonstrated actively in our teams, organizations, communities, and families. Delete the scoop?
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"Our character – our leadership – needs to rise to the situational challenge. It is about ownership and integration. We need to own the good, the bad, and the indifferent. We need to own the problem and resolve it with head-on grace. We need to ensure our character is integrated to support actions in all types of situations." Delete the scoop?
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"We need to create a floor. Our honesty floor needs to stop us cold from being ignorant, bull-headed, and arrogant. The reasons are straightforward:
Situations change. We can choose to adapt as appropriate, or we can choose to be less than honest and become irrelevant.
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"Integrity is not a goal to be achieve as much as it is a life to be pursued." Delete the scoop?
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(From the article):From my perspective, the most damaging leadership cliff from which leaders fall is that of breaking trust with their followers.Repairing broken trust can be a long and arduous process, and the best way to build trust with others is to not break it in the first place. But how does a leader go aboutintentionally building trust? There are four ways:
(From the article): From my perspective, the most damaging leadership cliff from which leaders fall is that of breaking trust with their followers.Repairing broken trust can be a long and arduous process, and the best way to build trust with others is to not break it in the first place. But how does a leader go aboutintentionally building trust? There are four ways:
Let's pray they take one - wish I was confident they have the breadth of vision to think about the environment and the people rather than the politics