Book description
Corporate and government scandals continue to deepen our mistrust of
leaders. While credibility is the foundation of effective leadership,
most leaders struggle, and sometimes fail, to align their words and
their actions. Now forthe first time, leadership expert Tony Simons has
measured the bottom-line value of business leaders who live by their
word and actually do what they say they are going to do. In
The Integrity Dividend
, Tony Simons shows how leaders? personal integrity drives the
profitability and overall success of their organization. This
groundbreaking book is based in on solid research and reveals that
businesses led by managers of higher integrity enjoy deeper employee
commitment, lower turnover, superior customer service, and substantially
higher profitability. This improved performance is the integrity dividend
.
Simons conducted dozens of focus groups, surveyed thousands of
employees, collected financial and operational numbers, and
interviewed over 100 senior executives and executive coaches. The book
lays out the research clearly and provides proven tools for managing
common integrity challenges. It offers guidance for building
individual credibility and for creating an organizational culture of
integrity and accountability. Throughout, Simons uses real-world
insight and stories drawn from senior executives, line managers, and coaches.
The Integrity Dividend is a fresh view of leadership at a time
when it is most needed.
