The Integrity Dividend (PDF)

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 for the 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.