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Opening the Integrity Conversation

Tony Simons, Ph.D.

I am excited to launch this website and to dedicate it to raising the integrity level on the planet. To learning more about how integrity works and why it is so darn difficult. To figuring out more great tips for managing so as to capture the integrity dividend. ...

The Firewalk of Integrity

Tony Simons, Ph.D.

I have just completed my firewalk instructor certification course with the Firewalk Institute of Research and Education (F.I.R.E., get it?). It was a mind-boggling experience is no many ways. I learned some WONDERFUL new training tools for empowerment -- and, as side benefits, I felt massively empowered myself by doing ...

Special Issue on Leader Integrity

Tony Simons, Ph.D.

Hey, folks-- My google alerts just told me that I was being cited on the web, and I found a whole issue of the International Journal of Leadership Studies dedicated to this critical topic. Have not read all the articles yet, but they look promising. I know some of these guys. ...

Be the Guy

Tony Simons, Ph.D.

My friend and colleague Kevin Basik has been involved in leadership training for Air Force at the Air Force Academy, The Citadel, and nationally for Air Force ROTC. When he teaches, he tells the following wonderful story. _________________________________________ I was a young lieutenant in the Air Force in San Antonio, playing ...

Why Codes of Conduct are Horrible… And Necessary

Tony Simons, Ph.D.

The last thing a busy, effective, results-driven executive wants is a new book of rules, to be strictly followed and enforced. Especially if that book of rules is long and detailed. Who has time to read it, much less consult it? And that goes double if that book of rules ...

Dilbert Highlights a Classic

Tony Simons, Ph.D.

Do I really need to add anything to this?

Apologies: What is Enough? President Obama’s Reaction to Professor Gates’ Arrest

Tony Simons, Ph.D.

by Amy Newman, Cornell University [caption id="attachment_827" align="alignnone" width="525" caption="Obama, Gates and Crowley after their "beer conference""][/caption] When Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was arrested at his Cambridge home on July 20, 2009, President Obama was fairly quick to weigh in. The president said "the Cambridge police acted stupidly," while acknowledging, ...

An Infuriating Insight

Tony Simons, Ph.D.

I was recently able to join one of my role models and senior advisors, Jim Kouzes, as a participant in his teleseminar about leading through tough times. It is a very relevant topic nowadays, and one I have been considering as the theme for my next book. There was an opportunity ...

Book Review

Tony Simons, Ph.D.

The first thing I do when I get a book is flip open to the inside flap of the dust cover and read the summary. I like to get a fifteen second feel for the book before I dive right in. The first line on the dust jacket read: “Corporate and ...

Integrity Goes to Washington

Tony Simons, Ph.D.

What if a new approach started to gain traction in the halls of Washington? Where people might actually say what was really on their mind. Where politicians debated their real reasons for votes. Where promises were reliably kept. Where opinions were recognized as opinions, and facts as facts. We just might ...