Covey on Integrity

Covey gives four components of Integrity: honesty, congruence, humility, and courage. See The Speed of Trust. The One Thing that Changes Everything. (New York: Free Press, 2006). pp. 62-66

Honesty includes not only the truth, leaving the right impression. It's possible to tell the truth, but leave the wrong impression. And that's not being honest.

He then goes on to quote Einstein, the E=MC squared guy:

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Whether or not you out and out don't trust him or get kind of suspicious that he might not be trustworthy, his point is taken.

I know when I see a little thing wrong in a book or article, I start to doubt all of it. After all, if there was a mistake in what I do know about, what is wrong with what I don't know about? I know others operate in the same way.

If I had a colleague whom I knew had not been honest in some things ask me to trust him on a big thing, I would have a sit down with that person, sort of a "why should I trust you?" kind of a discussion.

More on Covey next time.

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