Al Watts Blog

We’ve heard a lot lately about how integrity lapses are costly, but less about how integrity drives organizational effectiveness and competitiveness.  Part of the reason may be that we associate integrity mainly with only one of Webster’s definitions (the 3rd, actually) – “sound moral

When I help organizations articulate their core values, the lists look very similar.  I often see values that are variations of integrity,” “honesty,” “service,” “excellence,” “quality,” “trust” and “stewardship.”  That’s fine as long as people really mean those values; after all, the

What would be true if we could summon ten percent, twenty percent or more courage? What unpleasant or even disastrous circumstances might be avoided? What might we achieve that otherwise we can only imagine? Just in the context of recent headlines what might be different? Courage is a