We are trained by default to consider ourselves to be some attribute or some collection of possessions or our personality, popularity, collection of friends and acquaintances, our house, car(s), income, clothes, intelligence, job title. etc. Maybe you aren’t that stuff at all.
Consider: Who you are is your word, nothing more and nothing less. How you define yourself is what you say to yourself and others.
What you say requires integrity for you and others to regard it as the way it is.
Integrity is a matter of a person’s word. What is your word we covered here.
And this is why integrity matters. You create yourself and your future in what you say. And integrity with regards to our word is required to have real power (quote).
With out integrity of our word, there will be little or no real power (defined) and the opportunity for leadership (defined here) will be diminished.
There are 12 hidden-from-our-view ways of being that once discovered for yourself they will be removed and give you access to integrity as your natural self-expression. This is yet another good reason to do the Being A Leader course.
Ideas from: Erhard, Werner and Jensen, Michael C. and Zaffron, Steve and Echeverria, Jeronima, Course Materials for: ‘Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model’ (October 4, 2022). Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 09-038, Simon School Working Paper No. 08-03, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 08-02, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1263835 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1263835