If our people understand us, we'll get their attention. If our people trust us, we'll get their action. He has to have the trust of those who are following him. According to one thousand three hundred senior executives who responded to a recent survey, integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success. Seventy-one percent put it at the top of a list of sixteen traits responsible for enhancing an executive's effectiveness.
Leaders are to live by a higher standard than followers.
The thummim was used to determine what the will and purpose of God was. A scourge of modern day ministry is the tendency to work harder on our images than on our integrity. Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are. Two old ladies were walking around a somewhat overcrowded English country churchyard and came upon a tombstone.