Did You Miss Our Meeting? A Story On Personal Integrity

One of my biggest pet peeves: people not showing up for meetings on time, or not at all. Without notice. That’s just terrible from an integrity standpoint. And a waste of my time. I run my schedule on Dutch time: if you’re not 15 minutes early, you’re already late.

Let’s take a closer look at integrity. Wikipedia defines integrity as “the basing of one’s actions on an internally consistent framework of principles. Depth of principles and adherence of each level to the next are key determining factors. One is said to have integrity to the extent that everything he does and believes is based on the same core set of values. Behaviors within the concept of integrity include: honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, keeping one’s word and agreements, punctuality, ethics, fairness and justice.”

How You Do One Thing

Long story short, you could summarize this as “how you do one thing, is how you do everything”. If you’re late for a meeting, there might be an underlying trend. There’s probably different…