When you look at anything we do in life, we find ourselves using the very same skills all great leaders use:

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• Academic training
  
• Lessons learned from mentors
  
• Intuition
  
• Empathy
  
• Emotional Intelligence
  
• Values
  

When these skills, personality type, and temperament are taken together, they make up the foundation our sense of integrity is built upon.

Absent a guiding ling, people will not know what to expect from you.

Absent your consistent behaviors and decision making your business culture will suffer

Absent having something your beliefs in are unwavering, no one, not your closest confidants, business partners, employees or customers will know what to expect from you, your business or those that represent you because your INTEGRITY becomes the corporate culture guiding all those on your team and all of those gathered around your business (your customers and prospective customers).

This is Part #1 in a series on INTEGRITY, what it is, how to nurture it, how to pass it on.