The Difference Between Ethics and Integrity

It shouldn’t be a grey area, but is.
It shouldn’t be something we need to write about, but it is.
What it should be is something we all have ingrained into our psyche. Something that’s instinctive, and which governs our behaviour without question.
But it isn’t.
 

What Makes Good People Do Bad Things

Warren Buffet believes that those who cross ethical lines are “neither saints nor criminals, but well-meaning leaders who sometimes fail to consult their moral compass while speeding ahead in a landscape full of tripwires and pitfalls.”
But what about those whose moral compass is already a little off? It doesn’t then take much to nudge them even further off the straight and narrow.

Is South Africa Being Strangled by Family Ties?

Nine.
That’s how many times assassinated whistle-blower Babita Deokaran was shot just days after exposing suspected corruption to the tune of R850 million at Tembisa Hospital on Gauteng’s East Rand.
She was 53 years old.
As she lay dying outside her home, minutes after dropping her teenage daughter at school, her killers made their speedy getaway.
Over a year later, six men have been arrested and are facing trial for the shooting.
 
 

A Crisis or a Leadership Crisis?

Power, greed and pride – a toxic triumvirate driving decisions of bad leaders. Scratch the surface of a crisis and, predictably, individuals, groups or nations with toxic motives will be revealed. Typically, the origin of man-made crises is flawed leadership.