Before you speak, stop and think...
There are two forms of dishonesty: 1) distort the truth and 2) hide the truth.
It applies to individual leadership, relational leadership and corporate leadership. Even Jack Welch, Former CEO General Electric, says the BEST leaders have the courage to face and tell the truth in everything:
"The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it."
Facing the truth (about finances, friendships, marriages, spiritual condition, longevity, heath, etc) doesn't always feel good. Sometimes it hurts. But, facing the consequences of avoiding the truth always hurts worse and for longer.
Created almost 3 years ago
