Leading With “With The Lights Always On”

Proverbs 5:21 (MSG) Mark well that GOD doesn't miss a move you make; he's aware of every step you take.

What leaders do and what they fail to do define their integrity.

Recently, we have seen the supposed grayness of integrity as it applies to some candidates for positions in the new administration in Washington, D.C. Different standards seems to exist for some who supposedly have “something to offer” and therefore “get a pass” on what could cause you and me a problem, not a pass.

In Portland, OR, a mayor who lied about a sexual liaison with an adolescent still is mayor, having not resigned. His rationale? He admitted his “mistake” and asked for forgiveness, and he is “best” suited at helping the city in its current financial crises – i.e. his lack of truthfulness had no real consequence except for some embarrassment – and the end justified the means.

Leading with integrity results from behaving “in the dark” as if lights are on all the time. Integrity is about completeness. No division between the light of day and the dark of night.

Are you leading with the lights on – all the time?

Copyright © 2009 by P. Griffith Lindell