Are You Making This Mistake?

The first mistake a bad leader can make is to do anything without integrity. People of integrity stand on solid ground. There are no skeletons in the closet that can come out to destroy them. A person of integrity has a clear conscience. When an individual’s internal and external behaviours and beliefs are consistent with each other, he or she is a person of integrity.

Here are my keys to integrity:

• Integrity is doing right when no one else is looking
• Integrity is keeping promises
• Integrity is being true to principles, regardless of consequences
• Integrity is being faithful to the truth when it is uncomfortable, inconvenient, and personally costly.
• Integrity is consistently living righteous lives because we wish to please God.

I love what Socrates said, “The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.” The more credible we are, the more confidence people place in us, allowing us the privilege of influencing their lives. Everything rises and falls on leadership, and leadership functions on the basis of trust.

Effective leadership is not based on being clever. It is based primarily on being consistent. The only way to keep the goodwill and high esteem of the people you work with is to deserve it.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on integrity driven leadership in the comments or over on my facebook!

Check out last week’s post here. For more tips check out my post on 3 Things You Can Do To Be A Better Leader or my book "You The Leader"! 

See you in Church!