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Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality
by: Henry Cloud

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 179.9
EAN: 9780060849689
ISBN: 0060849681
Label: Collins Business
Manufacturer: Collins Business
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 292
Publication Date: February 01, 2006
Publisher: Collins Business
Release Date: February 07, 2006
Sales Rank: 12251
Studio: Collins Business

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Integrity. It is more than simple honesty. It's the key to success. A person with integrity has the -- often rare -- ability to pull everything together, to make it all happen no matter how challenging the circumstances.

Drawing on experiences from his work with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and individual leaders, Dr. Henry Cloud, a clinical psychologist and nationally syndicated radio host, shows how our character can keep us from achieving all we want to (or could) be.

In Integrity, Dr. Cloud explores the six qualities of character that define integrity. He uses stories from well-known business leaders like Michael Dell and sports figures like Tiger Woods to illustrate each of these qualities. He shows us how people with integrity:

Are able to connect with others and build trust
Are oriented toward reality
Finish well
Embrace the negative
Are oriented toward increase
Have an understanding of the transcendent

Success is not related to only talent or brains. There are a lot of bright, talented people who are never successful. And the most successful are not only the ones with the most talent. The real factor, Cloud demonstrates, is the makeup of the person. All of us can grow in the kinds of real character that bring about fruitful relationships and achievement of purpose, mission, and goals. Integrity is not something that you either have or don't, but instead is an exciting growth path that all of us can engage in and enjoy.

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- Reaching Our Potential By Resolving The Gaps Which Strengthen "Character" To Avoid Life's Traps
Henry Cloud, PH.D, executive consultant to over 500 corporations, provides insights on the correlation of integrity to leadership and life success in "Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality." Cloud uses his experience from over twenty years of working with people from all walks of life to highlight key "personal issues that keep some of them stuck and cause others to be amazing performers."

Cloud initially outlines the three essentials for success - competency, alliance building, and character. He points out that the people who possess the first two qualities are a "dime-a-dozen." But to truly make it, one must have the third ingredient. "They have to have character to not screw it up."

The book's core message centers on character and what Cloud details as "the character" that:

1. Creates and Maintains Trust
2. Is able to see and face reality
3. ... Read More

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- impressive clarity on how integrity works and how to develop it
in my quest for growth, i picked up this book and was rather impressed

i already read Dr Cloud and Dr Townsend's other books, Safe People and their series of Boundaries books - so this book on integrity piqued my attention while doing a search for them on audible.com.

so far, so good. like their other books, i appreciated their pragmatic view on developing emotional maturity, what integrity really means in varying scenarios, and relationship building ... the context has subtle ties to christian values (which i rather liked), but i don't think the secular reader will be either distracted or offended.

pros and cons

pros = gave me some insights into my own levels of integrity. i didn't realise i had integrity in many areas of my life, i also realised that it was lacking in some others, albeit mild forms. needless to say, i found it encouraging to have something ... Read More

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- Integrity: the courage to meet the demands of reality
In answer to the age old question, "Read any good books lately?" "Integrity" is at the top of my list. Three of us spent early Friday mornings for months to walk thru the book considering how it correlated to our lives and the implications to how we would live out the principles. I've recommended it to a wide range of people including a mom who asked what book she should buy for her son who was graduating with a degree in Sports Management. This is a must read for every leader.

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- Practical Wisdom!
I read lots of business books. And this is perhaps the first time that someone else's book has helped me come to a deeper understanding of one of my own, a book first published in 1997 and entitled, "If Aristotle Ran General Motors: The New Soul of Business." My concern in that project was that top business people for many years had been talking about product quality and process efficiency, but hardly anyone at the time was talking about the spirit of the people who do the work. And that's still a relatively neglected side of business, which is ironic, since the people involved are ultimately responsible for how well any business does.

My book was all about the intellectual, aesthetic, moral, and spiritual dimensions of our experience every day, and how great business, as well as greatness in any part of life involving relationships, requires respecting and nurturing four foundations of excellence ... Read More

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