Good morning, Team! It’s Friday!
Let’s define a few related words to lay the groundwork…
According to ethicsunwrapped.com
Integrity, said author C.S. Lewis, “is doing the right thing, even when no one is looking.” Integrity is a foundational moral virtue, and the bedrock upon which good character is built.
Acting with integrity means understanding, accepting, and choosing to live in accordance with one’s principles, which will include honesty, fairness, and decency. A person of integrity will consistently demonstrate good character by being free of corruption and hypocrisy.
Integrity is revealed when people act virtuously regardless of circumstance or consequences. This often requires moral courage. Indeed, integrity is the critical connection between ethics and moral action.
According to www.assignmentexpert.com:
Ethic of civility defines morally acceptable behavior towards fellow human beings. … Civility includes “politeness, reasonable, and respectful” behavior. In its essences, ethics of civility constitute the heart of morality.
According to www.indeed.com:
Leadership principles are the set of actions or guiding beliefs that leaders can implement to move them toward success. … Leadership principles are a framework of actions you can take as a leader to inspire others to work together toward a common goal—they are the foundation for success.
The world longs for these three descriptors to be wrapped into one person, one approach, one human being who can make a positive difference and help others reach their full potential.
Recent events have increased the desire for such a combination of principles to be more evident, more prevalent, more … common.
Why can’t it be you?
Why can’t it start with you?
Why don’t we all approach our world as it sits today with a pledge for integrity, modeling civility and embracing leadership behaviors and overwhelm the negativity with positive, not-what-I-saw-on-the-evening-news examples.
Someone posed the question tonight, “How do I explain the recent events (that took place in Washington, DC) to my children?”
How about, “This is an example of what NOT to do. Violence and chaos and hatred have no place in our democracy and it will not prevail. We quickly and courageously picked ourselves up, restored order and got back to the business of leading the free world.”
Have a blessed weekend!
Tenacious Cadence 
Hello Eric and how are you?
I read today’s entry of your blog and came away feeling like you’ve done a great job defining leadership and integrity.
There is something big in your thinking and in your writing but it’s clearly missing in this piece.
The obvious thing for me to point to is a place I won’t go. Instead I wish you would have pointed to today’s problem and yesterday’s hero’s. Tillerson, Cohn even sessions all knew what this country was facing and got out before they became part of the permanent stain we are now trying to clean. Those people showed some examples of integrity in the face of a roaring huckster. Integrity belongs to The New York Times who faced with a constant bombardment from the leader of the free world unrelentingly pursued the truth.
We are all faced with disgrace brought in by our leader and it’s time we thank those who tried to warn us. That in my opinion is integrity.
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I seldom comment to comments but I’ll make the exception here.
Dear friend, I am well. I hope you are, too.
In response to your post comment-
A valid call out, indeed.
There are numerous rabbit holes I tried to avoid because I want to preserve the thought that leadership with integrity and civility will win the day.
If I sacrificed some of my deeper thinking/opinion on this one, maybe others, like yourself, will recognize that too and realize it was deliberate.
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