My grandmother and grandfather had a simple motto hanging on the living room wall of their small frame house, where many of my positive seeds of development and growth were planted for the future. My grandmother and grandfather believed that you were either honest or you weren't, that there was no in-between, that there was no such thing as being partially honest.
Integrity is in short supply today, and it's getting scarcer.
Without this quality, leadership is a facade, a garment that one wears depending on the fashion. This rare quality of integrity is having a standard of personal morality and ethics that does not sell out to expediency and that is not relative to the situation. Integrity is an inner standard for judging your performance. The mark of a true leader is uncompromising honesty. People who see little or no value in themselves will not operate according to such an internal compass.