Security Leadership: Lead With Integrity

5. Lead with integrity
Personal and professional integrity should be at the core of a security leader’s beliefs and actions.  In today’s business climate, unfortunately corporate scandals show some executives sacrificing their personal and professional ethics.  True excellence and leadership demands executives hold strong personal and professional ethical standards.

-- From (http://blog.csoboard.com/cso/2007/07/security-excell.html)

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition.  2000) defines the word "integrity" as:  "Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code."

Leading with integrity the definition of what some might call ethical leadership.  However, being a leader doesn't guarantee that your are being ethical in all that you do.  Likewise, being a person with high moral and ethical standards doesn't transform you into a leader.  However, being a professional that leads with integrity in every action you take will ensure long-term success for yourself, your organization, our community and society.

I challenge all business professionals and leaders--it is time we lead with integrity in our work and everything we do.

Jaime