| (Excerpted From Cultivating An Unshakable
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| | way or the other, make no mistake about
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| Character)For a leader, honesty and
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| | it.One of the most challenging areas of
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| integrity are absolutely essential to
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| | leadership is your family. Leadership of
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| survival. A lot of business people don't
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| | a family demands even higher standards of
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| realize how closely they're being watched
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| | honesty and integrity, and the stakes are
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| by their subordinates. Remember when you
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| | higher too. You can replace disgruntled
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| were a kid in grammar school, how you
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| | employees and start over. You can even
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| used to sit there staring at your teacher
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| | get a new job for yourself, if it comes
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| all day? By the end of the school year,
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| | to that. But your family can't be
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| you could do a perfect imitation of all
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| | shuffled like a deck of cards. If you
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| your teacher's mannerisms. You were aware
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| | haven't noticed, kids are great moral
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| of the slightest nuances in your
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| | philosophers, especially as they get into
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| teacher's voice - all the little clues
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| | adolescence. They're determined to
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| that distinguished levels of meaning,
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| | discover and expose any kind of
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| that told you the difference between
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| | hypocrisy, phoniness, or lack of
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| bluff and "now I mean business".And you
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| | integrity on the part of authority
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| were able to do that after eight or nine
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| | figures, and if we're parents, that means
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| months of observation. Suppose you had
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| | us. It's frightening how unforgiving kids
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| five or 10 years. Do you think there
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| | can be about this, but it really isn't a
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| would have been anything about your
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| | conscious decision on their part; it's
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| teacher you didn't know?Now fast forward
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| | just a necessary phase of growing
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| and use that analogy as a manager. Do you
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| | up.They're testing everything, especially
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| think there's anything your people don't
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| | their parents.As a person of integrity
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| know about you right this minute? If you
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| | yourself, you'll find it easy to teach
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| haven't been totally aboveboard and
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| | integrity to your kids, and they in turn
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| honest with them, do you really think
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| | will find it easy to accept you as a
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| you've gotten away with it? Not too
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| | teacher. This is a great opportunity and
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| likely. But if you've been led to believe
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| | also a supreme responsibility, because
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| that you've gotten away with it, there
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| | kids simply must be taught to tell the
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| might be a good probability that people
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| | truth: to mean what they say and to say
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| are afraid of you, and that's a problem
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| | what they mean."Praise is one the world's
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| in its own right.But there is another
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| | most effective teaching and leadership
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| side of this coin. In any organization,
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| | tools. Criticism and blame, even if
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| people want to believe in their leaders.
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| | deserved, are counter productive unless
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| If you give them reason to trust you,
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| | all other approaches have failed."Now for
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| they're not going to go looking for
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| | the other side of the equation, we all
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| reasons to think otherwise, and they'll
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| | know people who have gotten ahead as a
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| be just as perceptive about your positive
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| | result of dishonest or unethical
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| qualities as they are about the negative
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| | behavior. When you're a kid, you might
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| ones.A situation that happened some years
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| | naively think that never happens, but
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| ago at a company in the Midwest
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| | when you get older, you realize that it
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| illustrates this perfectly. The wife of a
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| | does. Then you think you've really wised
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| new employee experienced complications in
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| | up. But that's not the real end of it.
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| the delivery of a baby. There was a
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| | When you get older, you see the long-term
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| medical bill of more than $10,000, and
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| | consequences of dishonest gain, and you
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| the health insurance company didn't want
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| | realize that in the end it doesn't
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| to cover it. The employee hadn't been on
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| | pay."Hope of dishonest gain is the
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| the payroll long enough, the pregnancy
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| | beginning of loss". I don't think that
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| was a preexisting condition, etc,etc,..In
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| | old saying refers to loss of money. I
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| any case, the employee was desperate. He
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| | think it actually means loss of
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| approached the company CEO and asked him
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| | self-respect. You can have all the
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| to talk to the insurance people. The CEO
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| | material things in the world, but if
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| agreed, and the next thing the employee
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| | you've lost respect for yourself, what do
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| knew, the bill was gone and the charges
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| | you really have? The only way to ever
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| were rescinded. Then he told some
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| | attain success and enjoy it is to achieve
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| colleagues about the way the CEO had so
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| | it honestly with pride in what you've
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| readily used his influence with the
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| | done.This isn't just a sermon, it's very
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| insurance company, they just shook their
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| | practical advice. Not only can you take
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| heads and smiled. The CEO had paid the
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| | it to heart - you can take it to the
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| bill out of his own pocket, and everybody
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| | bank.To Your Success,
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| knew it, no matter how quietly it had
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| | Jim RohnTo order Jim's best selling CD
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| | permission from Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine.
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| example above is just as obvious to all
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| concerned. When you're in a leadership
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