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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Positive Leadership: Integrity is the Most Important Characteristic of Leadership


‘Integrity is the basis of trust. It is one quality that can’t be acquired. It must be earned.’ Warren Bennis

Corporate ethics has to be more than a buzzword or a slogan. A culture of integrity can be a major corporate asset with a value as great as a company's trademarks, patents, or brand name.  

Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, leads the most aggressive and successful criminal prosecutors office in the United States specialising in white collar crimes. He has led the insider trading prosecutions of Raj Rajaratnam, the head of a major hedge fund, and Rajat Gupta, former head of McKinsey and Company, and has never lost a criminal insider trading prosecution. His office has also prosecuted major Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering, and securities fraud cases, and has a particularly intimate view of the benefits of integrity as a valuable business asset. 

(For the full speech, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTv3e5iZNOM )



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