securing INTEGRITY

ToC

1. Preface -- Why are we writing this book on integrity?
   
2. Table of Contents -- Integrity incorporated into all things
   
3. What is Integrity? -- Sailboat metaphor
   
   • Principles and rules and exceptions
     
   • Situations
     
   • Always looking for the sweet spot
     
   • Classic uses of the term "integrity"
   
   
4. Why some people don't have integrity -- Rudderless or windless VS. purposely nasty
   
   • Living with good intentions but...
     
     • Living the overly principled life -- too much rudder
       
     • Living without living -- not enough wind in your sails
       
     • Living the overly distracted life, living in the situation -- not enough rudder and too much wind
     
     
   • Living with bad intentions
   
   
5. Why is it difficult to have integrity?
   
   • Living the principled life -- Too much rudder
     
   • Living in the situation -- Sailing in circles quickly
   
   
6. Modern day confusions aren't so modern -- Plato, Marx, Enron (what is a confusion)
   
7. Sowing confusion -- the bad guys -- hiding the lighthouse
   
8. Living with integrity Sailing effectively -- Principled and active living
   
   • Lifelong benefits of having integrity -- Visiting many harbours
     
   • Short term effects of lacking integrity -- Navigating the shoals
     
   • Long term effects of lacking integrity -- Missing the ports; staying in the harbour
   
   
9. How do others rate? Survey results
   
   • Persons of integrity
     
   • Corporations and integrity
     
   • Politics and integrity
     
   • ...
   
   
10. Rating yourself -- Chart // quiz
    
11. Keys to living fully with integrity -- It's not just a marketing image
    
12. Glossary, index, references, ...
    

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linking INTEGRITY: Links related to the values integrity, freedom, hope, and peace of mind, and to the subject areas security, privacy, technology, and business.

In the individual, integrity is the balance found in following long term guidelines, call them principles, that make sense, while being fully aware and responsive to the situations that arise in living life -- a balance in action and reaction between principles and situation. Both principles and situation can direct our actions. Our excitment in life is to find the path that maximizes the best for ourselves and all other living and systemic things.

More poignantly, to be fully involved in life means that you encounter "ethical dilemmas" -- two actions competing for your advocacy. How do you decide? Most importantly, with integrity.

More later.