The Challenge of Integrity

2 Minutes Business Article

Title: The Challenge of Integrity

Someone said “Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on principles and values rather than personal gain.”

Another person said “Success without Integrity is failure.”

I honestly feel that deciding to do business with Integrity is like deciding to give up everything so others can go up first, while you Join them thereafter, by reaping the harvest of your seeds. Sounds like the most difficult thing in the world to do as we are in a world of ‘what’s in it for me, more than what’s in it for others.’

Integrity is being true with yourself and others in words and works all the way.

The word Integrity has its origin in a Latin word ‘Integer’ which means perfect, complete, or whole.
Integrity is relative; people’s definition and Interpretation of it differ. When you look again at the meaning of the word, you can understand why a higher percentage of people practice what I call ‘pseudo Integrity’ as against genuine Integrity; not many people believe in perfection, completeness, or wholeness.

When you read through the Vision and Mission statement of many Organisations, you’ll repeatedly find the word ‘Integrity’ e.g. ‘we deliver excellence with Integrity.’ But, truth is, for most of these organisations, Integrity has an associative meaning, understood only within the organisation.

In the lives and businesses of many, Integrity is held in a defective measure, so it produces the opposite result of what is really desired. I’m pretty sure you have met people who tell so much lies, but call it wisdom – that’s what I’m talking about! Worst of all, these same people believe they have Integrity.

Though, Integrity means different things to all of us, still, that doesn’t change the fact that Integrity is truth in its pure and undiluted form.



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