Honesty and Business Ethics (Week 3)

  I feel like this week's topic on honesty is one I have learned about my whole life. For that reason, it was largely a review. However, Sheri Dew's talk, "True Blue Through and Through" did help me to think about the topic a little differently. She brought up the example of the Comet, a plane that disintegrated while in the air. After testing, the engineers found that the repeated stress of pressurization brought about small cracks that turned into holes. The plane, "lacked structural integrity." I think this is where I am most vulnerable when it comes to integrity. It's not about a big breach of honesty, it's about little ways in which I degrade my personal integrity. It's about not being the same person in front of others that I am in front of my children. It's about not living a congruent lifestyle. I think this is such an important principle and one that I want to pass on to my children perhaps more than any other. When you act with congruence in your personal and public life, you can stand in the sun and with confidence before those you love and before God. 

  I also appreciated Elder Robbins assertions that an A level entrepreneur is primarily motivated by a love of God and man with a secondary motive of making an income. This made me evaluate how my entrepreneurial goals would change if this were the case for me. I think that this is a constant value that will consistently take reevaluation throughout my whole life.

  As I was reading in Mosiah this week, I read about Abinadi and thought, "a man of integrity." He had the chance to deny the words he had spoken of Christ, but he didn't. He testified of the same doctrines before men in secret and before God.

Things I want to remember:

The Formula & Happiness (Launching Leaders)
Getty’s steps to success:
Get up early
Work hard
Find your oil

Haight’s steps to success:
Get your education
Make your mark
Prepare to serve/give back

Getting up early is especially hard for me right now with children, but I have seen the difference in my life as I have done it in the past. Hopefully, I can implement it better in the future.