How to Develop Personal Integrity

How to Develop Personal Integrity

It has become dramatically clear that the foundation of corporate integrity is personal integrity. As Albert Einstein said: Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

There is such a need for a complete rebirth of trust in our business leaders. Somewhere along the line leaders lost their humility and in doing so they have lost their compassion and empathy, and their conscience. In the next articles we will introduce a framework for the formulating of your identity, so called your personal balanced scorecard.

By implementing this personal BSC and finding the proper balance between your personal ambition and your behavior you will get inner peace and the ability to be guided by your inner voice. All of which develops personal charisma, trust and personal integrity. People with this perspective on life matter to one another and create a stable basis for their own credibility. When people achieve this inner authority, they also have a positive effect on the feelings of loyalty, motivation, and dedication of those around them.

The credibility of people depends on the following:

– Trustworthy people practice what they preach.
– They keep their word.
– Their actions match their words.
– They suit the action to the word.
– They keep their promises.
– They do what they said they would do.

The central questions in this contemplative process are:

– Do I act in accordance with my conscience?
– Is there consistency between what I am thinking and what I am doing?
– How do my ideals, ambitions, intentions, needs, and deepest desires fit my present actions?

– Are my thoughts and my practices the same?
– Do I act in accordance with my personal ambition?
– Does my personal ambition reflect my desire to act ethically?
– Are there contradictions in my personal ambition?
– In what way does my behavior influence my views, and vice versa?