Pivotal Leadership Point

On the eve of his first inauguration, George Washington is reported to have said "Integrity and firmness are all I can promise."

Before you can have integrity, you must have firm values. It is important that you establish a basis of conduct from which to operate. Without a firm knowledge of what to you is right, and what to you is wrong, you will be indecisive in leadership situations. You must have a clear-cut standard of behaviour to guide your thought and actions in order to hold firmly to your integrity.