The Importance Of Integrity

Honesty and integrity are very important to me and the way I live my life. These basic principles have also often contributed to many of my successes, as by helping people and taking action in a way that is consistently positive and honest, people will often help you back.

There are a set of old blog posts in The Retrospector that focus particularly on integrity, which cover some great points:

• Integrity Series: Don’t Defer Blame
• Integrity Series: Avoid Exaggerating
• Integrity Series: How to say you don’t know
• Integrity Series: Avoid Taking Undeserved Credit

Sometimes acting with integrity can be uncomfortable as it means openly facing your own failures, but by doing this in a positive way and working towards solutions, it does become increasingly easy to do and you will reap the rewards over time.

The issue of building trust through consistently acting based on a set of positive values is a strong theme in the book "The Trusted Advisor" (recommended in a previous post of mine), which goes into much more detail around a structured approach around this.