Featured insight · Branding
August 29, 2016
What is the Meaning of Integrity?
I know you have all heard it before. “That guy has absolutely no integrity,” “that company has no integrity,” or “I value my integrity the most.” Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but most of you probably have no idea what integrity even is. It is like one of those ubiquitous label words that everyone uses but nobody knows what it means, like hipster or culture. To some it means honesty. “If you lie, then you have no integrity.” To others, it means showing up on time. “If you make a plan, then have the integrity to keep it.” And still, to others, it means having balls. “He didn’t even have the integrity to fire me face to face.” So in my confused exhaustion and feeling somehow that my integrity has been slightly compromised in a recent incident, I decided to hunt for the meaning of the word. I started where everyone should start such a journey, the dictionary. in the city that’s a right noun The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles is moral uprightness. 2. The state of being whole and undivided. So, in order to define integrity we have to define moral “uprightness”, which…
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